Eschaton is worried:
In any case, while we all at times have our private thoughts about person X having a little “accident” on the grounds that they’re bad and they would deserve it, that’s a far cry from actually advocating for extra-legal “justice.” I see more and more approval for such actions, which combined with advocacy of “official” extra-legal justice (such as Gitmo and torture), tells me that there is increasing contempt to for the system and institutions which are the foundations of our society and that which we are supposed to be defending.