heaterwedge

Yes, it's unfortunate and we very well might be headed towards a French Revolution era.

I hope people on both sides of those phrases remember how many benign people were killed during the French Revolution, to say nothing of how many "true believers" were as well (Robespierre was also executed by guillotine).

The answer to "X doesn't work" usually isn't "let's do the exact opposite of X because X isn't working".

There's just scads of historical evidence to support what a bad idea that usually is.

Just be careful what you wish for :). Vigilante justice doesn't have a great history of being actual justice.

> This seems just as much of a failure of society in dealing with these kind of nihilistic parasites sucking our society dry as anything else.

While nobody's shedding a tear here, we should be cautious about even softly embracing or downplaying vigilantism.

Worth remembering, and we've already seen it happen frequently: Vigilante justice can be wielded against controversial personas you support, and there will be just as much applause from the sidelines (from the other side).

That feeling can even extend to people you might consider innocent: See one of the other comments where someone is noting they wouldn't shed a tear over a particular company's *employees* being murdered.