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The only thing I'd do differently is I probably wouldn't write a blog about it. This idealist world you're living in sounds lovely but I'm not going to sit and
by thieving_magpie 11y ago
The only thing I'd do differently is I probably wouldn't write a blog about it. This idealist world you're living in sounds lovely but I'm not going to sit and risk my livelihood by "sucking it up" and accepting "the world is unfair".
If you want to base your moral code on laws made by old white guys, go for it. I'm going to live my life based on what I believe to be just. That's really how change comes about, challenging legal authority. Think about the historical figures you respect - rosa parks, mlk, snowden (maybe?). The world would be a worst place if they didn't break the law. To me that is contributing to the good of the world.
- danbruc 11y agoI'm going to live my life based on what I believe to be just. Exactly this is the problem. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with frontier justice, the only problem is that people don't act rationally in general. What if it is not some lost money but if someone got badly hurt, raped or killed? Can you hold back your emotions? Make sure that you are not targeting the wrong person? And even in the case of this story, what if those two guys are themselves just victims of the real scammer hiding behind their identities? You just publicly stigmatized two innocent people as scammers.
- thieving_magpie 11y agoAgain, I do not think it was right to air any of this publicly. I get what you're saying, but I still do not agree that I should never disobey the law when I feel it is morally justified.