I used to be against vigilante justice, and while it is dangerous and easy to do wrong, if the law doesn’t protect you, you’ll have to do it yourself. I’m not encouraging people to seek revenge; far from it. The only justice that can exist is preventative justice. We can’t undo harm or force people to repent for past crimes, but we can make things better in the future through actions in the present.
100%. I was bullied as a kid for being the fat nerdy kid who was always reading books. But, as it turns out, breaking a nose in class or beating the everliving snot out of someone in the middle of the cafeteria line (to the point it takes multiple teachers to pull you off of the bully) tends to make life easier for a few years wrt being bullied.
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I used to be against vigilante justice, and while it is dangerous and easy to do wrong, if the law doesn’t protect you, you’ll have to do it yourself. I’m not encouraging people to seek revenge; far from it. The only justice that can exist is preventative justice. We can’t undo harm or force people to repent for past crimes, but we can make things better in the future through actions in the present.
100%. I was bullied as a kid for being the fat nerdy kid who was always reading books. But, as it turns out, breaking a nose in class or beating the everliving snot out of someone in the middle of the cafeteria line (to the point it takes multiple teachers to pull you off of the bully) tends to make life easier for a few years wrt being bullied.
Hated doing it, but it solved a problem.