Not that i'm encouraging vigilantism (I dont want my question removed!)
Its something I wonder about from time to time, especially with some weak judgements being handed down in the courts - Paedophiles on good behaviour bonds, but bank robbers get 20 years+. (I know who I would rather live next door to - money is replaceable, a childhood is not!)
Anyway, why do you think we havent seen more vigilantes? What would it take for you to become one? Do you know any?
Thoughts/opinions?
Thanks
2007-01-20 00:21:44 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Dellow - you obviously disapprove. I AM allowed to ask the question arent I?
I saw a question recently where someone asked why President Bush hadnt been assassinated yet. The asker wasnt planning on doing it! He just wanted to know why, with society being the way it is, where murders happen for the most trivial of reasons, why President Bush hadnt been the target of the impassioned feelings he creates in people.
The guy who asked the question could have been pro or anti Bush. We will never know. It was more a question about society.
Just because I ask a question, doesnt mean Im promoting it. It means Im trying to understand it. Or why it does or doesnt happen. Big difference.
2007-01-20 00:48:38 · update #1
Outside of the Death Wish movies, vigilantism tends to be frowned upon by law enforcement, who consider it to be THEIR job and responsibility (and rightly so). Vigilantism IS illegal, and people do go to jail for it, especially if it's an election year.
The only way I could imagine it happening is if the local constables looked the other way, and I can't imagine it happening more than once, especially with the scandal-philiac (like that word? I just made it up!) media we have that love to exploit situations and destroy people for ratings.
2007-01-20 00:30:36 · answer #1 · answered by Mitch 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometime,s the law is a ***,As you say a bank robber is getting longer prison sentence's than a kiddy fiddler,And that is wrong,So people take the law into there own hands,If any one of my children was abused by a pedophile,And he was given a good behavior bond as punishment,I know that i would take the law into my own hands and do harm to him,So in many ways i can see why there are vigilantes..
2007-01-20 00:30:37 · answer #2 · answered by Bella 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your question smells like you are promoting vigilantes. The reason is that most people understand that taking matters in their own hand is wrong. If we all take the law in our own hand we and up being lawless.
2007-01-20 00:28:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
it's illegal to be a vigilante. we have a court system to deal with that. if i was a vigilante what would i do with a bank robber? keep him locked up in my back yard?
2007-01-20 00:25:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
apathetic society
2007-01-20 00:23:54 · answer #5 · answered by Nemesis 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋