I think it’s wrong, someone decides it is up to them to catch and dish out punishment based on their moral beliefs, yes some things they target there will be little sympathy from the public, but what about those who may be targeting a dating site for example, trying to flush out players and you respond to a ad and they decide you are a player and in e mails send you a virus that kills your computer.
That’s just a example but it is going on, people can hide on the internet and hand out punishment, that they might not have enough information or enough intelligence to be making these judgements.
I think they should be charged and dealt with harshly.
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Depends on the brand of vigilantism.
KInda what I’m talking about though, one see’s a story that the public more or less goes along with, and decides to apply it with their own beliefs about something totally different, like the example I gave. Which is going on in the world
If you have a legitimate complaint against someone, use the legal system.
If you don’t, shame on you…people have been know to lie about things, and, yes, say things that aren’t true just to cause others pain.
If you’ve ever been wrongly accused of something, the last thing you want is a group of vigilante’s deciding what you deserve based on the hearsay and lies from bullies.
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in my opinion, vigilantes are just people who think they are doing the right thing. just like people, they might have supporters and fans, but vigilantes are just as equally subject to the law as any other person. nothing changes if they decide to form a group.
those sound like hackers, more than vigilantes. are you talking about online dating sites? if so, when I used to frequent those usually robot-infested online dating sites; I always had Adblock on, so I never had to see those types of weird advertisements.
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No not dating sites, just used that as a example, vigilante groups are popping up all over forcing their beliefs on people. But they do use dating sites to find their prey. But in reality they can do it on any special interest site,
Personally I think they are the scum of the earth, forcing beliefs others may not agree on
Anonymous …is a big one…but how can you tell who is really functioning within the groups parameters and who is just bullshitting…
exactly, once they see Anonymous they get the idea to start their own group and may be wrong in their way of thinking or not have enough smarts to figure out who is good or bad just lump everyone in one group
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Therein lies the problem.
They are not qualified to formally judge and serve punishment on others. If they feel so qualified, they can go about it in the legal way that protects all.
Laws were created to make all men (people) equal-period.
Subject to persecution should they harm someone who didn’t deserve it perhaps?
Trouble with that kind of thinking is that by the time they are stopped, they usually have done irreversible harm to an innocent person.
Hell, they won’t even appologize for their behavior because they will never admit they were wrong.
They are cowards who feel they are above the law and the only thing they deserve is to never be allowed to be in a position to harm someone again.
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A while ago apparently a mob of folk attacked a persons house. They had been told the owner was a paedophile.
Turns out the owner was a paediatrician and the mob had gotten its words mixed up. This kinda illustrates what I think about vigilantes.
Saying that batman is awesome!
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not just that, but there are certain things that vigilantes can’t do because they are not law enforcement.
like a man and a woman can set up a gig where the man “steals” her purse. an unknowing vigilante might chase the man down and injure him, trying to get the purse back. however, the woman would then say that she gave him the purse, rather than he stole it. and then the man can press charges on the vigilante, for pain and suffering or something. sounds like a plot from my paranoid sz, but you never know. blame the movie “Derailed.”
if you know the law, you can usually take legal action against vigilantes; as ironic as it sounds.
like in this situation:
I would have called the police, if a mob was outside my home. and if the police won’t care, then I guess I could do anything I wanted to defend myself… I’m feeling quite paranoid, talking about this
on an off-note: I remember on the news, long ago, that there was some rough argument outside between a man and a woman; so some person (probably a vigilante) intervened. she ended up being okay, but that person got life-threatening injures and was pronounced dead in the hospital.
The officials pretty much act like vigilantes anyway(in the worst way), so I like to hope that there are some productive vigilantes out there.
Vigilantes, by definition, are criminals. Vigilantism usually arises when a person, or group of people, feel that the laws on a particular matter are inadequate. However, regardless of how strongly you feel a law (or laws) is inadequate does not justify the undertaking of the law. To the contrary, if you feel a law is inadequate you are free to use any and all legal means to change the law.
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99% of the time, vigilantism is unjustified.
That said, let a creep harm a hair on my daughter and see if he gets to walk away from it.
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There are some certain unknown men out there who have done some things to some women I care about that seriously makes question everything about the nature of the complacent in the face of evil deeds.
Society itself is sick… it’s almost as though the mentally ill have a better chance of seeing that.
Wicked dumb people out there. The vigilantes do what they do to feel power in a world of implied powerlessness.
Theives, assholes, rapists… scum suckers all about. It must be taken as a fact of life. They are here and will always be here and have always been here. Unfortunately not much can be done. Society constrains all ill will. If you aren’t content just being a better person and doing well by the folks who know you… then yeah the mind starts to wander about what can be done… unfortunately that just spells more illegitimate torture and death based on the judgment of one individual’s perspective.
It is a serious issue though. Even goode people can lose respect for the law and refrain from getting the proper authorities involved when someone is truly out of line.
In the world where the law is disrepected. People will almost do things just out of spite of the suggestion that laws are out there. Therein you have the essence of criminality. If you are stuck in the world of those types of minds, things seem a little different. It’s all about self-empowerment…
If you have people like that in your life… cut them the ■■■■ out of it. Not literally… but both evil men and women should be left to deal with their own sorry asses and shoddy souls in there hellish playground of disrespect. Unless they for some reason decide to wise the ■■■■ up and try and be decent inside. In which case they should be carefully rehabilitated and rewelcomed into society.
It’s saturday night and I just went to the gas station to find a host of grunged, dumb, druggy schmucks gathered like crows.
Playing for intimidation… trying to own a public lot by number…
I can’t wait to get out of here and get my farm started.
The law protects you only so much, and I’m only talking about when it’s after the fact of the incident involved that one should allow justice to prevail.
But, when things are witnessed firsthand, well, that changes everything, especially when it involves little kids…more so when it’s family, because what happens next, is fair game in my book… some people shouldn’t get a second chance to do harm to others.
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I feel you about someone sticking a virus in your computer. It’s something only a coward would do. Most mobs are pretty cowardly too.