RE: I do not like vigilantism. But.
October 1, 2012 at 6:02 pm
(This post was last modified: October 1, 2012 at 6:11 pm by Doubting_Thomas.)
what's the point? Is this a serious thread or something else?
Vigilantism is a complex moral question. Violent vigilantism often goes wrong, especially when religiously justified. However, there is at least one occasion in my life were, with hindsight, I wish I'd physically taught someone a lesson, but that would have been illegal, and that's a law I quite agree with*. So I cannot come out and say that vigilantism isn't always unfair. But evoking rocket launchers?!?!?!??! Thinking people, including by definition most atheists-by-choice, should be above that.
*anyway, someone much bigger taught that person the lesson, although I doubt he learnt it.
Vigilantism is a complex moral question. Violent vigilantism often goes wrong, especially when religiously justified. However, there is at least one occasion in my life were, with hindsight, I wish I'd physically taught someone a lesson, but that would have been illegal, and that's a law I quite agree with*. So I cannot come out and say that vigilantism isn't always unfair. But evoking rocket launchers?!?!?!??! Thinking people, including by definition most atheists-by-choice, should be above that.
*anyway, someone much bigger taught that person the lesson, although I doubt he learnt it.
blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” – John 20:26-29
