If the cops performed vigilante justice on Dorner, so what? He had it coming.

[Egalitarian Thug]

84. This thread is such a depressing representation of what went wrong.

We've become mean, as in offensive, selfish, unaccommodating, nasty, malicious, small-minded, penurious, stingy, parsimonious, and illiberal.

We have hard-nosed, authoritarian people that genuinely think of themselves as liberal without any consideration of what that even means.

We don't deal with problems anymore because that is hard and frequently involves inconvenience and sacrifice, we simply seek to eliminate the symptoms, especially when the symptoms are people.

Nobody here is calling this man a hero and nobody believes his actions were justified, yet there are accusations of just that repeated all over this board.

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."