For various personal reasons from my own past I want to support vigilantism in many cases where things are not possible for the system to handle. Priests protected by the church, surviving war criminals, people who for whatever reason are legally "untouchable"... I don't consider it vigilantism if its a "hot pursuit" type action like chasing the person who just grabbed your kids or stopping an in-progress crime of some kind though for the obvious reason of societal functionality.
Which is, really, why even though I may want to I can't support vigilantism. Firstly beating someone up and/or running them out of town just makes it someone else's problem, and secondly for every person that stops at that level there are probably at least as many people like me that would just quietly kill them and be done with it, and that just does not make for a functional society.
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Originally Posted by Hectonkhyres
I'm imagining crazed dwarves doing profoundly weird things. Urist McNutcase has developed a compulsion to jam anything colored blue up his anus, or alternately other peoples anuses
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