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Originally Posted by ServantofGod If the government fails to punish the wrongdoer, such as in a muslim country where a radical can get away with outright murder, would it be wrong to seek justice on one's own? | There is a Hank Williams Jr song called "I got Rights" where he deals with that. Awesome, if scary song.
In a Muslim country you, a non-Muslim, are forbidden to bring charges against a Muslim because you are an infidel mongrel Christian dog and your word is about as good as such.
Now back to the Hank song, you could sort of place the murderer in a situation where you would be forced to fight in self-defense. Running on ethical ice, but it's not really vigilantism either. |
Unfortunately that ice of which you speak is sitting at a happy temperature of 50 degrees F, so running on it is out of the question.
To put a potential murderer in a position in which you would be forced to fight in self defense is to provoke a neighbor to sin, and to act in such a way as you think will likely cause him to stumble headlong into it. This is explicitly forbidden in Scripture and no less wicked than direct vigilantism.
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