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Originally Posted by aMindAmok
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This is absurd. Let's say your cousin kills my brother. In retaliation, I choose you as my fair target for death. Would you die willingly? Would you defend youself? Should you kill me as I am trying to kill you does my family now get to kill two of your family indescriminantly? When does this cycle stop? This is why vigilantism is discouraged and punished. There is no way to determine equitable justice for any party outside of mediation. That is the roll the law plays. The rule of law makes civilized society possible. Meating out justice based on revenge will quickly devolve into anarchy. This is one of the ideals that keeps some third world countries from progressing to become a modern society. It's a backwards and regressive concept that best left to the history books.
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Except for that-ahem-there is no such thing as a modern society. All of the societies are interconnected and the big ones that the rest depend on almost went down in flames several times,-think the bank bailout-, we might have been better if we had stayed a race of goat farmers. Instead we're hyper-industrialized and sucking up the planets oil/gas/coal faster then ever, navigating one disaster after the next, the only thing saving our asses from the burning heat of a complete carbon melt down is the ever increasing technology our scientists keep pulling out from behind the curtain. If not for that we would could have all been dead and gone, the Philippines will keep trucking along and that will be that, being some great "1st world" country isn't really all that much to aspire too, 1st worlders fuck up way more then the 3rd worlders ever could if only because their governments can fuck up more. Hope we'll pull it off but jesus, we've had a pretty rough ride dealing with all these economic, nuclear, and global warming challenges.