Would you become a vigilante if you could?

Let's say crime is terrible where you live. Politicians, judges and police are corrupt and owned by powerful criminal syndicates/families. Poverty is wide spread. Whole city is crumbling. But there's a vigilante who has been decreasing the rate of crime and tackling the crime families all by himself.

You're walking home one night, and you're held at knife point for your possessions. You have nothing on you so the thug declares that he's about to stab you. Out of nowhere, he gets struck in the back of the head, rendered unconscious - by the vigilante. He gets you to safety and then asks you if you want to join him and make a difference. He'll train you fully but he doesn't guarantee your safety.

In a real world setting, would you accept this offer and become a vigilante?

Also, you can be whatever kind of vigilante you want. You have your own morals, your own way of doing things ect. All your decisions are yours and all options are available to you.

Can I hunt down Catfish?

I already am.

Yes, but only if you wholesale slaughter them with machine guns and chainsaws.

I will be a vigilante and hunt down evil Scottish criminals like @i_like_swords

Our world would then be a more peaceful place ^_^

Before I finish them, I'll say "This is for Nev and Max".

LMFAO

So racist. Why you gotta pick on the Scottish criminals huh?

I've seen Train Spotting, I know what monsters Scottish people are.

Well the truth is I just wanna hunt you down and murder you.

I have no ill intentions beyond that ^_^

No.

Oh god yes!

@comicstooge: I've seen Train Spotting, I know what monsters Scottish people are.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is Scottish.

Well as long as you aren't racist, that's fine :D

Hehe at least you've accepted your destiny as my eventual victim ^_^

P.S. Its really nice to mess with you after some time. I've missed this =)

Obi-Wan's from space, dude

No. I will put my friends and family in danger, especially being the type of street-level vigilante.

In a real world setting especially, money buys everything. If, say, you wipe out 75% of all drug trades and close down all the brothels in the city, all of the Mafia families and street gangs WILL join forces and combine their resources to bribe as many as possible government officials and police. The media will eventually find a way to paint you as a criminal. And once you've reached that stage of vigilantism, you have nowhere else to go, especially since you're just a street level.

Emphasis on the eventual, I ain't ready to go yet :P

N'aww... I guess it's mutual... not sure how to say it though. I missed getting messed with?

currently lack resources and a good hideout

@i_like_swords: If I cant move out, yea :)

Yes. I'd be the best.

IlS is Scottish??????

@penderor: Yup

hell yeah!!!

Do you have kilt, claymore, bagpipes and red hair?

@penderor: Two of each.

Nah

I would join him if I knew what type of morals he has.

I wouldn't become a vigilante if I could. I would become a vigilante because I had to, because the necessity for justice and revenge was not being served by the public safety administrators/law-enforcement officials; someone I care about was hurt, and if I had more than knives and baseball bats.

I have finals coming up. Ain't got the time for this.

@i_like_swords: Double Scotland!

Yep and I would slaughter all of my foes on Comic Vine. =)

Riders don't worry about the law

I would

I wouldn't be in that situation- I'd have already taken out the thug attempting to hold me at knife-point before he got the chance. And I'd also be cynical about the vigilante's true activities, and his credentials. Is the vigilante a sad cosplayer, an insane fantasist, or a psychopathic killer who wants to take me back to his lair and 'train me' by torturing me to death? I don't need extra training- in such a setting, I'd already be operating as a vigilante myself.

I think I would.

Yep.

I live in Detroit Michigan... It's already like that here. Not everywhere mind you, but many places in and around the city are like as described.

Yep.

We already have them here they call themselves the I.R.A