If you mean by vigilantism, that's a good way to get innocent people murdered. Unless you know some foolproof way for every random person out there who decides to take the law into their own hands to only kill the guilty. Good luck with that considering the history of "internet sleuths."
Innocent people are already getting murdered. At least one murderer has now been held accountable that otherwise wouldn’t have. That’s a net positive to me so far.
When innocent people start dying because of this maybe I’ll give a shit. But the only people who have died from this is one horrible fucking monster. If you expect people to pretend to be sad about that then you’re a fool.
This guy thinks that if CEOs get killed, lots of innocent people will die. Yet we have a pretty good example of that not happening. My guess is that they still think “protesting” and “demanding” change actually creates it.
You are a mod. That’s no lie. And look at your own comments…. You fight for doing nothing, and relying on other people to fight for you. Hate to tell ya bro, it ain’t working out.
The lie is the claim that I "desire obedience above everything."
I do not. Disobey me all you want. Just don't violate the rules I have been told to enforce. I didn't even make up the rules. In fact, I didn't even ask to be a moderator. I was just made one. On top of that, I'm not a moderator in this community in the first place.
“Just don’t violate the rules I have been told to enforce”
In other words, “I was just doing my job.”
This is exactly my point. “Whatever rules, regardless of their worth or how fair they are, should be enforced to the fullest.”
I’m sure this extends to government rules as well. Will you say this about all the crazy laws we can assume the right-wing will pass over the next few years?
I'm the guy who thinks the trolley problem is a useless mental exercise that has no real-world analogue, but makes certain people like yourself feel superior to people like me.
And you are superior to me, but you don't need to rub it in.
I have no idea why people insist on telling me what an utterly loathsome waste of space I am as if I didn't already know. Believe me, if I wasn't responsible for a child, I wouldn't be wasting the space.
I have shown two people now a couple of dozen links of vigilantism getting an innocent person beaten or killed. The idea that copycats here would somehow be an exception and this is the one time "internet sleuths" always get it right is silly.
It's also easy to mistake one person for another. It's happened over and over and over again. People with the same name as someone else get harassed because they get doxxed and the harassers don't bother checking.
You must know this. How many times have we seen it played out now?
Do you really think this is going to end without any innocent blood spilled?
Edit: It's also not hard to convince a bunch of people some random person is an evil CEO just by doxxing them. Like I said, people don't bother checking.
lol. These people are recognizable. You need to go to a lot of effort to locate and plan that. It’s highly unlikely anyone would “mistake” them for someone else. That’s like someone saying “I thought I was aiming at Elon Musk, at his house, but it turns out he has a doppelgänger who lives next door!”
Please show me the odds. I assume you've calculated them. Because I gave you a ton of examples of the wrong person being identified, including people who the vigilante thinks were a totally different person but they looked like the person they wanted to attack.
And I would like to know, like I asked someone else, where your line is. Is it okay if someone bombs a CEO in the middle of a city and a bunch of people around them die? If the CEO is with their family including an infant when they are attacked, is it okay if the infant is killed too?
No, we have a pretty good example of how to do it. Patience, low powder shells, home made silencer. Just don’t buy Starbucks or take a cab without changing clothes somewhere haha. Perhaps a prosthetic nose or a mustache.
You’re going to the worst case, when that’s pretty unlikely. Who has a bomb?! lol. It’s guns. Single target. Simple.
The line is check your target, get them alone, and just them. That’s a fuck ton more than they do when they indiscriminately kill thousands of people by denying valid claims. They’re getting off easy.
So, you ever had a job in law enforcement of any kind?
Why do you assume everyone wanting to do this vigilante thing will do that?
So, you ever had a job in law enforcement of any kind?
I've played this game before. If I say no, you'll just claim I'm lying about it.
And it's really silly to assume someone works or ever worked in law enforcement because they have seen a lot of vigilantes attack or kill the wrong person. Believe it or not, I just think that's why vigilantism is a bad thing. You make a lot of silly assumptions.
Obviously this is an invented persona covering up my undercover police activites. Me and James Acaster. Curses, you found me out! I'm going to have to go back to the station and get a new mustache now.
Like I said, you figured out my dastardly undercover plan to spend my entire adult life working in video and audio production:
I have spent most of my professional life in the video and audio production industries. I had my own small post-production studio in Los Angeles for 10 years. I have worked as a video editor, audio editor and sound designer for multiple prestigious clients and also for some low-budget film companies.
I also have experience as a news videographer, I’ve done a lot of TV and radio advertising work, and I have an impressive list of people I’ve done voice over work for (I specialize in characters and accents).
I went to the police academy at age 5 and got hired by the FBI when I was 9 and by the time I was 18 and went to school to become an audio engineer, I had already begun my federal police plan to infiltrate Lemmy. In the year 1999.
And it would have worked if it wasn't for you kids and your dog.
I don't know how you figured out that I am very much definitely a cop for sure, but you've ruined 38 years of hard police work!
Everyone seems to agree that school shootings shouldn't happen, but Americans have been fed a steady diet of vigilante superhero myths since the creation of Superman in the 1930s and too many of them want to be their own Batman or Punisher.
People want to be superheroes. Do you think this guy is going to be the only one who decides to take the law into their own hands? Do you think everyone who does is going to get the person they intend to get and never make a mistake?
Something tells me you wouldn't be so willing to have someone misidentify and then attack or kill you or someone you care about. But it's okay when it's an innocent stranger, right?
That does not address a single thing I said. Don't change the subject. I was talking about vigilantism, not insurance claims.
Your bloodlust for killing the innocent when it is "necessary" is noted.
How many innocent people it is acceptable to kill per CEO? 1? 10? 100? 1000? What's the maximum number here you'll accept? How about if someone throws a bomb on top of a CEO in the middle of a city and it kills everyone around him? Acceptable? What if the CEO is with their baby at the time and the baby gets shot too? Fine to shoot a baby as long as the CEO dies?
I want to know where your line is, but I have a feeling you'll try to change the subject again rather than respond.