Poll: if someone was killing criminals what would your reaction be?

If A Vigilante Was Picking Off Criminals, What Would You Support ?

  • Let them get on with it and good luck to them.

    Votes: 205 71.9%

  • Unacceptable. Report it.

    Votes: 80 28.1%
  • Total voters
    285
  • Poll closed .
Depends what the criminal has done. Anything but serious crimes such as murder etc then I would want to see it stopped.

If however they went about targeting gang members and people like that, then go at it.
 
Captain_Slick said:
This sentence makes no sense. Explain pls.
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It makes complete sense.

There is a very slim chance that the majority of people in prison are infact innocent, and deserve the chance to prove their innocence. Killing those criminals, takes that chance away.
 
The majority of people serving life are guilty, however; there will always be failures of the system and innocent people will be put in prison. Isn't it right to let them prove they didn't kill little Lucy, rather than hanging them, or allowing murderers to murder them?
 
If someone killed or did something to my friends or family I would not think twice about killing them myself - I would happily sit in jail knowing that I did right my myself and them.

There is no 2 ways about it, if the justice system fails those closest to me I will not fail them afterwards.
 
sanaxe1 said:
Would it then be acceptable to kill the killer of the murderers as he is now a murderer him self?
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The act of killing someone is not murder, its just an act, murder is what we deem as killing someone with an inadequate reason.

Killing someone is justified if, you're protecting someone elses or your own life, it isn't murder. Killing people at war has rarely been considered murder, the reason the act is commited is more important than the act itself, and its always been that way.

If a vigilante started picking off murderers who got away with what they did, its a fine line, with some of them they WILL be preventing further violent crimes, which while not as specific as say shooting someone whose actually standing over someone with a knife and mid way through the motion to stab them, is still rather loosely self defence.

But this is where the lines blur, it will be difficult to know who will reoffend.

THe guys the op mentioned, the two kids who got 4 years, as nasty as the act was, they in no way meant to kill the guy, however it was directly their actions that led to his death, its not murder, its accidental manslaughter basically with a healthy amount of bad luck thrown in. I think they should have gotten a little longer, but considering they most certainly did not go out there to kill that guy that night, should they really have gotten the same sentence as someone who went and shot a guy in the head with the only intent being to end his life? FOr instance, someone mentioned Dexter, who generally goes after people who get away AND show no remorse and will almost certainly reoffend, these two kids didn't mean to kill someone, and will likely never do anything that could accidentally cause a death again as well, they never tried to kill anyone in the first place. The papers haven't covered it, but the two kids could be incredibly remorseful and sorry for what they did, or they could think its funny, who knows, we certainly don't.

As I pointed out earlier, the end result of someone being dead isn't anywhere near as significant as the reasoning, someone whose stupid actions results in an accidental death without intent should NOT be punished with the same sentence as someone who specifically and purposefully kills someone.
 
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I live in a free and open democratic society which has a justice system for one and all. That is system is one of the cornerstones of a just society. Any transgression in the operation of system would be reported.
 
I think killing is too extreme...

Edit: I think either I, or a lot of people may have misunderstood. Are we talking about killing them after they have served their sentence/before their trial or while they are in the act of committing said offence with the aim of stopping them completing the serious crime?
 
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I would hope that the person be caught as what would you do if say your (insert loved one here) was accused of something that they had not committed but were then murdered by this vigilante?

I honestly thought that the people on this forum were more intelligent to realise that this really would be a terrible thing.
 
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