(September 26, 2016 at 3:11 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Vigilantism, in my view, is an evil, because it enshrines the subjective over the objective. In my way of thinking, the good life is attained when those two values are put into balance. Nothing inherently wrong with preferring your own feelings, but giving them primacy almost always results in hurting others, and that ain't good.
Agreed. Look at how many innocents are hurt or killed by the famously non-killing Batman; all to no avail anyway, since every villain he catches (or kills) would be released because of lack of due process.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'