[knarf]

You missed my point.

I was responding to the word "endorse" in your reply.

Because I think, if people honestly and objectively analyze their own thoughts and motivations, they DO .. at least .. desire immediate response/retribution especially of a wrong that could have been made right.

Like ... you catch the rapist that did your daughter and you DON'T turn him over to the police ... maybe never ... maybe not right away ... 'cause YOU got him first.

I think we DO endorse immediate satisfaction in a lot of things ... we just don't like or want to be the one that is the dealer of death.

Consider ... does anyone realistically think a Constitutional convention would actually right a wrong ......... in our lifetime?

Yet, it is a good and legal thing to do ... just takes too long.

[farming pharmer]

Yes, I'll admit that vigilante death squads, fighting for my cause, would be deeply satisfying - in the short run. I would be ecstatic if a group of civilian snipers wiped out an entire BLM thugfest.

But in the long term, where does the violence end? There are cultures that have been at war for hundreds or thousands of years. Cultures built around revenge (Albanians, etc.) I'm no pacifist by any means, and the threat (or delivery) of extra-judicial justice may work on a case by case basis.

You just don't want a permanent state of death-squad culture, like Central America.