Just to make things interesting: take a look at the video on this link. It shows a man knocking out another shopper for attempting to shoplift. It is almost the same exact thing that happens on the streets.

 

http://freepatriot.org/2013/11/21/video-...-lifetime/

 

Now, some may think that such an act is justified. I do not. Not the way it happened.

 

Shoplifting, or larceny in general, is a non-violent crime. Did the other guy have a right to confront the guy? Absolutely. Did he have a right to make sure that the perp didn't get away with breaking the law? Absolutely.

 

However, he didn't have the right to escalate the situation to violence in my eyes. Crime in any capacity isn't a green light for vigilantism. People can't just meet non violent crime with violence. It made this guy no different than those punks that play the knockout game in my eyes.

 

Had he been threatened with violence, then this may have been a different story. There were a couple threads dissecting this kind of thing. To me, the good guy crossed the line in this case. What he did was worse than what the bad guy did in this case.

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