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Yzarc	Feb 11 2009, 08:59 PM
Coxian Posts: 3,432 Group: Veteran Member #308 Joined: July 8, 2005	Really, justice, law, vigilantism, and anything that has anything to do with enforcing rules, be it by prison, death or fines, all comes down to one thing for me, and that is whether or not a person poses some sort of threat to anyone else. Revenge is never justified, which is why I think the word "justice" is often unjustified, since I believe people use it mainly to describe vengeance. For example, bringing a rapist to justice by murdering him or killing him is, quite ironically, unjustified in my opinion unless he may rape again. If he will not rape again (like if he lost his penis or if he was imprisoned) then there is really no point in killing him except making yourself feel good because you've convinced yourself that he is a lesser being and actually deserves to die. No one deserves to die. Everyone has a reason for what they do, and regardless of whether or not you like that reason, it is still a reason that he or she acts that way. No one is simply morally inferior. People don't choose to be "bad." They become "bad" by various things, mostly due to upbringing, which they have no control over. It's like when we imprison people in the ghetto for using or selling drugs, when they wouldn't have been using or selling drugs (at least not crack) if they weren't in that position. And almost all people who commit sexual abuse have been sexually abused in the past. We're punishing them for being victims? They deserve it? Vigilantism is the worst, because if you say it's okay for some people, then it's okay for everybody, and if everybody and their mom decided to take to the streets with a baseball bat and a handgun then we'd have chaos. We can't trust everybody to do what's justified.


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