[MARTIAL MONK]

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.

[Maverick68]

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. Or as I like to put it: "Change will happen when very good men are forced to do very bad things..."

[Smokin' Joe]

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 chosen an avenue of questionable morality out of necessity.

Stolen! (With your permission), for my FR "about" page, attribution to you, and a typo corrected, of course. I have never seen it put better.