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Googling the Trail of a Serial Rapist
theodp writes "Innovative Interactivity has a behind-the-scenes look at the Washington Post's On the Trail of a Serial Rapist series. Information Designer Kat Downs details her experience designing and building the impressive interface for the series, including the use of Google Maps to track the rapist. Wary, perhaps, that it might encourage vigilantism, the WaPo stopped short of allowing readers to add their own input to the maps and urged anyone with additional information to contact the police."
well plus store bought bread doesn't take a day while your waiting for it to rise.
That's the trade-off of living in a modern civilization: you agree to give up your right to randomly hunt down whoever you think deserves it, in return for being assured that nobody else can randomly hunt you down to satisfy a grudge, either.
Sometimes that's just not a fair trade off. There are people who out there who are getting away with murder. The law is powerless to do anything. Killing a few of them would do a lot more good than bad.
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When notorious criminals are rewarded with million dollar bonuses instead of even the *threat* of legal action, we are so far from a functioning justice system that the alternative is indeed more appealing. Our justice system protect those who should be jailed, and jails those who should be protected. No justice system at all would be better.
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The vast majority of the shenanigans on Wall Street was perfectly legal.
Which is exactly why vigilante justice is needed. They own the legal system, so we can't expect any protection from it.
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One word:
Perspective.
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