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Vigilantism without oversight, checks and balances quickly devolves into posses terrorizing and brutalizing people they simply don't like. The US has a long his
by heavyset_go 4y ago
Vigilantism without oversight, checks and balances quickly devolves into posses terrorizing and brutalizing people they simply don't like. The US has a long history of this.
Vigilantism is not the same thing as community-led policing from members of said communities.
- homonculus1 4y agoThat's nice, but none of this has anything to do with "vigilantism." The other guy only used that word because he thought it sounded scary. If either of you knew what it meant you would understand that government-sanctioned action, for example a lawsuit with standing provided by statute, is the complete opposite of vigilantism in its entire definition.
- wolverine876 4y ago> The other guy only used that word because he thought it sounded scary. Argument by disparagement. Popular, but it has no force in reason.
- homonculus1 4y agoOnce you start using words to mean their own opposite, your claim to reason flies out the window.