Vigilante Justice Debate

Some want vengeance in place of justice.

It sounds like you want mob justice but managed to avoid using those words.

Or maybe vigilante justice isn't people's first choice, but justice is justice to them.

Calling it vigilante justice is giving it too much credit.

This article describes a situation where a bad person did bad things, and was eventually stopped.You are saying: "That was not the solution. But I don't know what the right solution is".How can you possibly know that there is an alternative without knowing what it is?I think what you are really saying is: "I have an ideological opposition to violence-as-a-tool which I cannot rationally explain". Or, "the consequences of violence-as-a-tool are so unthinkable

Vigilante justice is what happens when actual justice is not available. If you don't like vigilante justice, ensure actual justice.

Vigilante justice is not the answer.

I agree. That comment is a sad but common result of people who seek vengeance under the facade of justice.

I'm not s vigilante if that's what you're asking. It's up to the legal system to punish people, not me.

Many things make people want to take justice into their hands without us yielding to those who are prepared to commit crimes to punish others.