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Old 07-13-2008, 01:44 AM
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Re: Vigilanteism

The law is not so much protection as it is vengeance. Someone must break the law to require punishment. Vigilantism is simply deinstitutionalizing the vengeance. The reason why people consider it unjust i think is because it serves to break down social cohesion, not really that it is wrong to punish someone who should be punished anyway.
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