“…three months after the start of the trial of German Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Milgram devised his psychological study to explain the psychology of genocide”
the first experiment was in early 60’s but thats a detail
You mentioned WWII atrocities. There was another group who studied that same psychology of power - the Frankfurt School. The conclusions were pretty close
Why shouldn’t a cop “all yes ma’am yes sir”?
I’ve earned it.
Why should a citizen get nervous when approached?
Why can he rest his hands on his gun butt and I have to take mine out of my pockets?
Why can he run his cake hole at me behind shades, but I have to show eyes?
Vigilantes are a good thing only to people like you who may be trained and equipped to protect yourself from rogue vigilantes who have made you their target.
Most people are not prepared to defend themselves against vigilantes.
If you want that kind of individual anarchy, fine . That’s a valid thread topic … especially the “how we transition from where we are to that desired end state of yours”. But to propose that we - in the current society in which we live and work - could tolerate vigilantes is absurd.
Why? You didn’t cheer on the Koreans? The lawyer couple on the lawn in St. Louis? The father in Louisiana who killed his son’s molester? The counter-rioters last summer?
The state is failing and/or choosing not to engage. Good way to lose the consent of the governed.
What’s worse about “rogue vigilantes” than “thugs”? And then there’s the police, who I can’t fight. Police who keep me from fighting for myself, who won’t protect me.
I’ve seen this in color on a scale you can’t imagine.