The law is not an authority on morality. While slavery was legal it was still immoral. To use the law as your guide for what is right and what is wrong will have you doing/saying awful things. Things should be illegal because they’re bad, they shouldn’t be bad because they’re illegal. The moral problem with killing a Klansman (if there is one) is not that it’s done extra judicially.
“With or without [the law], good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes [the law].” - Steven Weinberg. He was talking about religion, but it’s really religious law that causes good people to do evil.
The law is not an authority on morality. While slavery was legal it was still immoral. To use the law as your guide for what is right and what is wrong will have you doing/saying awful things. Things should be illegal because they’re bad, they shouldn’t be bad because they’re illegal. The moral problem with killing a Klansman (if there is one) is not that it’s done extra judicially.
“With or without [the law], good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes [the law].” - Steven Weinberg. He was talking about religion, but it’s really religious law that causes good people to do evil.