let’s say you’re living down the street from a family with an abusive father. The guy is just cruel to his wife and kids. So one day you decide to take matters into your own hands and you go and shoot the dad dead. That’s good, right? The cruel, abusive father is dead, so it’s good and justified, right? But you didn’t ask the wife or the kids if they wanted their father to be killed. You didn’t care what they wanted, because you didn’t do it for them. You did it for you. You did it because it was what YOU wanted. And if they get mad at you for it, you say oh they’re just ingrates. They don’t appreciate what I did for THEM. But, it wasn’t for them. It was never for them. It was for you.

More left wing progressive cope, the iranians are clearly happy someone took out the abusive father

lemmy.world/post/43709323

The ends don’t justify the means, because what you’re talking about is lawlessness and vigilantism. Even if your unilateral decision to murder an evil doer seems justified in this situation, what about next time? And why is it up to you? Why do you get to decide who is worthy of execution and who isn’t? Are you god?

god could you shut the hell up with your hypotheticals, i knew lemmy was autistic but fuck me