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Comment by heaterwedge

> 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.

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