>What precedent are we setting by explicitly making "murder someone" a viable path to making progress on your personal agenda? None. It already is. People murd

>What precedent are we setting by explicitly making "murder someone" a viable path to making progress on your personal agenda? None. It already is. People murder other people all the time, sometimes to make progress on their personal agendas. Vigilantism isn't new, it's been romanticized and elevated as noble and virtuous ever since Thomas Jefferson waxed poetic about watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants. I don't understand why so many people consider this one incident so existentially threatening. Is it just because the victim was rich? Why did everyone clutch their pearls and worry about the fate of civilization because one rich guy got shot, but write off countless other victims of gun violence as just the price of living in a free society? Is it just that people were surprised there was such little sympathy for the victim? Have you seen the way people talk about black victims of police violence? was that callousness and lack of empathy just shocking because the victim was white? I mean, it didn't even move the needle on anything. There was no uprising, no revolution. Just fucking memes.