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Vigilantes, Retribution, and the Pursuit of Meaningful Justice (Patreon)

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Vigilantes, Retribution, and the Pursuit of Meaningful Justice

Try Acorn TV free for 30 days by going to https://acorn.tv/ and use promo code likestoriesofold. Support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/LikeStoriesofOld Leave a One-Time Donation: https://www.paypal.me/TomvanderLinden Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LikeStoriesofOld Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tom.vd.linden Or Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tom_LSOO Video essay exploring vigilantes, retribution and the pursuit of meaningful justice. Sources: Max Weber – Politics as a Vocation: https://amzn.to/3puTba5 Further Reading: Like Stories of Old – The Complete Reading List: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/reading-list 10 Books that changed my life: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-books-that-changed-my-life Media included: Batman Begins; Batman v. Superman; Gladiator; I Saw the Devil; John Wick; John Wick: Chapter 3; Kill Bill; Law Abiding Citizens; Marvel’s Daredevil; Marvel’s The Punisher; Memento; Oldboy; Shooter; Spider-Man 1, 2 & 3; Taken 2; The Dark Knight; The Dark Knight Rises; The Punisher; The Revenant; The Secret in their Eyes; Vikings; Walking Tall; Watchmen; Watchmen (HBO) Business inquiries: lsoo@standard.tv Music: Erick Serna – Atmosphere (instrumental) Ryan Taubert – Son of a Gun Ryan Taubert – White Knight Jacob Montague – In the Rising Tide Ryan Taubert – Inclination Ryan Taubert – I’m not a Tyrant Davis Harwell – Requiem Blade Ewing – As Bright as your Memories Music licensed from Musicbed. Elevate your videos with record-label quality music here: http://share.mscbd.fm/likestoriesofold

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Susan Price

This was an excellent look of the nature and consequences of vigilantism. The area of the Ozarks I live in saw this in real life, a century ago. Following the Civil War, Missouri had people whose loyalties were split - some clung to the Confederacy (like the Youngers and the James), while others were staunch Unionists. It came to a head here in my area, with the Baldknobbers. They were a Unionist vigilante group, started because of a murder by a Southern sympathizer, and for a time, actually kept to a certain level of discipline and 'justice'. But in time, they become corrupt and hurting innocent people who just happened to be in the way, or who had caused some offense that far from merited the so-called 'justice' being brought down. If you google 'baldknobbers', you'll see the terrifying hoods they wore to disguise themselves. The old adage 'power corrupts' is true. Life doesn't promise us justice, and sometimes you just have to accept it and let go. I think that's why forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves. It allows us to let go of anger, bitterness and the power of others to determine our emotional agency.

Jimmy Gee

I would LOVE to have every scene used have a small caption for the title of the movie. How about having that for patreons only. ;-)

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I don't think YouTube still has that function unfortunately, but I always try to respond asap to people asking where a specific clip came from

Christina Dietrich

"Wounds need air to heal" - you placed that line at exactly the right moment for maximum effect. Gorgeous essay, as always. Thank you.

Brian DiLeo

Amazing work. As a video editor, I am impressed with your thoroughness in searching for the perfect sequences : )

Galadrim

Great video. Just before starting watching had like 5 ideas about this topic. Aaannnd you covered them all :D .I personally hate superheroes, and lot of my friends don’t understand why. For me they are criminals of the worst kind. They get praised for hubris. Superheroes may bring “justice” , but it’s based on fear. So nothing’s changed. Furthermore, when they monopolies justice, the whole system becomes dependent on them and I speculate that the whole “normal” justice system evolution slows down. Thank you for the great content. Cheers!