Do you believe in Vigilantisism? Such as in the movie "The Punisher"?

Answer 1

Sure. I hope the police do not think I am supposed to call them and ask bad guys to wait around until they arrive (and leave me alone in the meantime). I don't think that startegy works well.

If an aggressor feared me blowing a slug in his head, they might very well think twice beforr messing with innocent people.

Answer 2

No. The legal system may not be perfect, but it at least has some safeguards to prevent punishing the innocent. What is supposed to keep the vigilante from making mistakes?

Even if he doesn't make mistakes, we would live in chaos if people regularly took the law into their own hands. How would we be able to determine when someone had righted a wrong, and when someone had simply murdered an innocent for an unjust reason?

Of course, self defense is an entirely different manner. I am talking about people going out and actively looking for criminals to attack, or seeking revenge long after the crime was finished.

Answer 3

Our women and children are currently at a high risk of becoming victims as US courts continue to release untreated sexual perpetrators back into our communities. They do so knowing fully the fact that pedophilia is not a behavior that is rehabilitative and that most child sexual perpetrators refuse to self limit or govern themselves.

The current government in power and the courts has a tendency to cover up most corporate crimes and as a general rule of thumb the board of directors and stockholders will go unpunished.

Or after getting caught stealing billions will pay comparably small fines and if they have to go to prison at all will go to a country club.
Without any accountability these practical men and women of business continue to place company profits over the health and safety of the public. They at times even knowingly have cost countless of lives and their dangerous and unethical business practices will have our great- great-grandchildren still paying the interests on the complete costs to the public health and safety.

So if there is no justice for the rich and untreated predators will continue to be released into our midst what is the public to do.

When the processes of law and justice are inadequate or nonexistent, it falls to some group or individual to fulfill the demands of social justice and take the law into their or his/her own hands. In doing so they ignore the general laws of the land and this action it is called vigilantism.

Vigilantes are self-appointed agents of justice, who organize to "summarily" suppress and punish crime and see to the health and safety of the people.

It would be better if the courts, police and political leaders were doing their jobs to protect the public not the needs of special interests and big business.

Answer 4

Not as a replacement for the legal system, but I believe in certain instances where the justice system has failed it is necessary. One instance I can think of is that Jeffery Dahmer wasn't issued the death penalty, so Christopher Scarver (with the aid of the guards) beat him to death with a blunt object. Justice was served.

Answer 5

No, I do not believe in vigilantism. Vigilantism is when members of the group surrender their brain to the mindless whim of the gang. Through history vigilantism has cause lynchings, murder, torture, and uncontrolled mayhem.

Answer 6

No. I believe in constitutional rights and rule of law.

Answer 7

yes. If they can't be caught by the law, you gotta catch them yourself. Payment-and the check ain't gonna be in the mail.

Answer 8

to get the job done you have to do it yourself

Answer 9

yup.. eye for an eye