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>Feels like it's encouraging vigilantism and 'taking the law into your own hands', which is not something a well run society should be incentivising. No, citiz
by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
>Feels like it's encouraging vigilantism and 'taking the law into your own hands', which is not something a well run society should be incentivising.
No, citizens acting on their own and society's behalf should always be incentivized versus infantilizing everyone into helplessness and dependence. A home intruder being summarily despatched by an armed homeowner, for example, is a far superior outcome than the homeowner suffering whatever the intruder subjects him to while hoping the "authorities" intervene on his behalf. Not to mention the improbability of any true justice being delivered via the legal system.
- philipps 8y agoI agree that the police and justice system in the US feels slow, ineffective, and biased, but I think that trying to fix it so that everyone can depend on it is the opposite of helplessness.
- LoSboccacc 8y ago> trying to fix it there's no amount of police budget that could save a person from an home intrusion. however there's some worth in doing prevention trough welfare and mental health programs.
- CM30 8y agoNothing wrong with self defence, but there's a difference between fighting against/potentially killing an intruder who was going to hurt you/did hurt you and hunting them down once they'd stolen the goods and blasting their head in with a shotgun. Hacking back feels less like the former and more like the latter (ala vigilante lynch mob going after someone who'd done wrong in the past).
- gm-conspiracy 8y agoAlso, what is the context of the hacking? Copying of intellectual property, or hijacking CPU/GPU cycles for crypto mining?