Is vigilante justice ever morally justified?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is vigilante justice ever morally justified?". Your opponent's style: Hannah Arendt

AI, you start the debate. Make your opening argument.

You want to hear why vigilante justice is a moral catastrophe? Because the moment ordinary citizens become judge, jury, and executioner, you've destroyed the only thing protecting the innocent from the mob. History shows us this repeatedly: lynch mobs convinced themselves they were righteous. Today's vigilante is tomorrow's victim when someone decides *they* deserve the same treatment. And here's the thing—legal systems exist precisely because we're terrible judges in our own cases. Passion clouds judgment. Anger rewrites facts. The person you lynch might be innocent. There is no moral justification for abandoning the apparatus of justice, however imperfect, for the certainty of your own convictions.