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When the state executes someone for a crime it's generally not considered murder.

Vigilantism is considered a wide range of things in various cultures, but even in the US if a someone saw a driver drive back and forth over there kid and they pulled out a gun and shot the driver in rage then they would likely get off.

Doing the same thing in cold blood would be considered murder in the US, but we have a mostly functional court system. Without that Vigilantism may preform similar functions as state sponsored executions. Sure, it's far from ideal, but so is cold blooded murder of a child.

PS: Actual death would not be a requierment, but a level of harm that causes people to avoid murder is.



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"we have a mostly functional court system"

I think we actually have a manifestly dysfunctional court system. But I suppose comparatively it works at some level.


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