What do you think about self-handed justice and vigilantes?

What do you think about self-handed justice and vigilantes?
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being allowed to string the piece of shit that raped your daughter up definitely has its advantages compared to him getting off Scott free on a technicality in the modern legal system I guess

>someone pisses you off
>you kill them for "justice"
>his son kills you for "justice"

and the cycle of stupidity continues
we have law and order to prevent said cycle from happening (not perfect though)

you may think you never done anything but there are quite a lot of people that just love to exact justice upon you.

>neighbor is a business competitor
>plant evidence of molestation, tell other people he was a child rapist
>get off with no charges

Or, I just falsely accuse you of raping my daughter and string you up, then I rape YOUR daughter now that you're out of the way.

it didn't work that way usually

mob justice was never taken lightly

In principle it is barbaric and a stupid emotional thing to do in a civilised system that has built in mechanisms for dealing with crime punitively and with impartiality. Vigilantism reflects subjective personal morals and goals and hurts democracy/republics.

I understand it from an emotional point of view tho

A connection one could draw from the various points made here is that both law and government in a democratic system work best when they function as representations of their communities.

In modern society, democracy has become a consumer's choice. You get to chose different kind of brand policies; brand parties; brand representatives. "Pepsi or Coke?"

But democracy must represent the citizen's will. It must rise from the will of the public. The law must follow suit.

When a man from Athens voted, he voted for a man he knew. A man from within his community, a man who shared his values. Discrepancies could be avoided or ignored. Today, demographics force politics to appeal to a common denominator, watering down even further the differences between citizen's X and citizen's Y vision of things.

Mob justice was often the result of an understanding. You could agree to forego a ban on murder if the accused went farther than anyone in the community could abide. Today, law is unavoidably rigid and lacks societies' need for flexibility.

in a way law is not suppose to be too flexible

Whereas your typical person can justify everything in his mind even the most atrocious and evil of actions, a consistent law won't accept such excuses (in theory).