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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.”

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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.

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Sorry, that makes killing more innocent people acceptable?

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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.

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So were you ever or are you now in law enforcement, yes or no?

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I mean, it’s easy to find the c-suite and board of directors of any company.

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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?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/25/vigilante-paedophile-hunters-online-police

https://ethics.org.au/why-are-people-stalking-the-real-life-humans-behind-baby-reindeer/

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/08/17/543980653/kyle-quinn-hid-at-a-friend-s-house-after-being-misidentified-on-twitter-as-a-rac

This poor guy killed himself over it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Sunil_Tripathi

And now we’ve added assassination into the mix.

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.

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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!”

Really unlikely. Did you used to be a fed?

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People just want school shooters to update their targeting algos…

But funny how we don’t have these moral discussions when school shootings happen though

Hmm

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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.

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You are missing the point of what the people want.

They don’t want a super hero, he is just useful here.

People want for ruling class to listen and adjsit course. They are not getting it.

This got their attention and people are driving the point home. If they keep up their policies, when they get gunned down, we didn’t see nothing.

This the country the built for us. They love social Darwinism so why shouldn’t they face natural selection.

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