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Do we need vigilantes/ enhanced persons?
| Links?
| Here's some of the more notable ones...
Real life superheroes Wikipedia page:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-life_superhero
Phoenix Jones Wikipedia page:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Jones
The Shadow (Bromley Batman) news report:
https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&source=android-browser&q=the+shadow+vigilante
Dr. Chaos and the Chaos Realm (villain):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Konopka
There's many others,aswell as "super villians".
| Life imitates art at most prominent
| Many of the people in the real life superhero Wikipedia page are not vigilantes or enhanced persons, but people helping homeless, organising projects, etc. But this thread is mostly about vigilantes and such.
| We should automate as much as we can and anything we can't technologically-enhanced police should handle.
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| 10% of all American citizens are involved in domestic violence and abuse. 40% of all American police officers are involved in domestic violence. They have weapons, training, and know location of otherwise secret abuse shelters.
| Vigillante notions are a result of a society with the superhero complex, like America, where exists a strong conviction that some unusual outstanding individual will come up with a salvation or solution for the entire society.
Well, no. Society advances as a society as a whole. Superheroes exist only in comics and fairy tales and any society hanging hopes in them is actually a sorry lot of desperates.
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| Vigilantes such as Phoenix Jones and enhanced persons using custom tech are on the rise. Opinions: Do we need more, are they worth it, and can the vigilantes be trusted? Can the police be trusted?