3/ Vigilantism isn’t always wrong any more than killing someone is always wrong. It depends on context. When judicial systems can’t be relied on, they shouldn’t be relied on.
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4/ I don’t know whether Thompson”s killing saved lives. But there is a point when killing ins. executives would do so. Maybe it’s killing 10 CEOs, or 100 C-level execs, or the boards or directors too. At some point, they would cover more care and save many more lives than were taken.
As a society we have decided to put our trust in law and order and - tho both are fallible - the alternative of anarchic violence has been shown time and time again to lead to more pain and suffering. I strongly oppose attempts to go down that route.
Granville Sharp and abolitionists in UK, worked through multiple channels to ban slavery. In more recent times look at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in US or Liberty in the UK. But I mean It’s one thing to say “work outside the system”, it’s another to advocate for a campaign of mass murder.
If we take a counter example. The French Revolution is often hailed as a step forward for human rights. But the violence that was omnipresent through the revolution created conditions for a period of mass executions, a military dictatorship, years of war in Europe etc. took nearly 100 years to end.
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