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To: A_perfect_lady

You might want to make sure you’ve got the right guy before initiating drastic action.

That is, of course, the main moral issue with vigilantism.


11 posted on 05/24/2007 9:00:01 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.)
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To: Sherman Logan
You might want to make sure you’ve got the right guy before initiating drastic action.

That is, of course, the main moral issue with vigilantism.

From what I have...ahh...heard (back in the day), that is how it is done. When normally non-violent men feel compelled to apply extrajudicial justice, it is an excruciating deliberation. They are fully aware that no system will protect them and that one day they will stand naked before their maker and have to justify their actions. No jury will deliberate harder or face the moral questions more squarely than moral men who have chosed an avenue of questionable morality out of necessity.

30 posted on 05/24/2007 9:20:41 AM PDT by MARTIAL MONK
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