I’m all for having strong personal ideals, and a healthy respect for democracy and justice, but out subscribe to many illusions about our system that make your beliefs pretty idealist. Not that people who call what Luigi did “the will of the people” don’t, but there is a dearth of false consciousness to go around.
We don’t have democracy, justice, civility for all, we have it for a dwindling few. Luigi’s vigilantism is a sign of the utter failure of all the systems you note “should have” taken care of these things.
This is the problem with morality vs ethics. Morality doesn’t require one to understand their own beliefs, or worry about where they came from; only to follow them. What we call democracy is a form of class domination. We deserve more.
I’m all for having strong personal ideals, and a healthy respect for democracy and justice, but out subscribe to many illusions about our system that make your beliefs pretty idealist. Not that people who call what Luigi did “the will of the people” don’t, but there is a dearth of false consciousness to go around.
We don’t have democracy, justice, civility for all, we have it for a dwindling few. Luigi’s vigilantism is a sign of the utter failure of all the systems you note “should have” taken care of these things.
This is the problem with morality vs ethics. Morality doesn’t require one to understand their own beliefs, or worry about where they came from; only to follow them. What we call democracy is a form of class domination. We deserve more.