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That's nice, but none of this has anything to do with "vigilantism." The other guy only used that word because he thought it sounded scary. If either of you knew what it meant you would understand that government-sanctioned action, for example a lawsuit with standing provided by statute, is the complete opposite of vigilantism in its entire definition.


> The other guy only used that word because he thought it sounded scary.

Argument by disparagement. Popular, but it has no force in reason.


Once you start using words to mean their own opposite, your claim to reason flies out the window.




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