Rightfully recovering stolen property from an unrepentant thief is perfectly justified according to the NAP but it has to be done by the victims or their agents. I'm neither so I can't justly take any such action... If I ever violated people like they did and refused to pay restitution, I would rightly expect a a swift and savage response. Once you establish yourself as a predator, you have to start worrying about good men that actually stand up to protect themselves, their families, and their communities from the likes of you.
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I understand the position you're taking. I just disagree. I think using violence to resolve disputes over money is unacceptable. Your stated desire to "fuck up" this person if you found some angle to justify it by the "non-aggression principle" is not something that should be encouraged and nurtured. Your apparent romanticization of "a savage response" is indicative of the sort of mentality that we really need to evolve past.
@bacchist Violence isn't the goal. It's an unfortunately necessary means to the end of restitution.
@full-measure Of course I agree that a peaceful resolution should always be attempted first... and it was - two years ago. It has failed. When the theif is willing to defend his loot, the reclamation process often calls for "escalation."
I don't agree. Well, it's vague what specifically you mean, but non-aggression shouldn't mean that you escalate.
Recover the stolen property, sure. But that's probably not what you mean by a savage response.
It's unfortunate that statist legal systems are more or less non-accessible and not cost-effective for ordinary people who want to sort out ordinary crimes.
In the future, and really what we're building here on Steemit and in the blockchain world, reputation will be increasingly important and ostracism will be increasingly effective. In a p2p world stealing money is social and financial suicide.
Right now there isn't a great solution for stuff like this. But I think you'd make the world worse and not better to start physically attacking people who steal (especially because it's energy you could have spent towards the real solution and the real way forward).
Given the exponential growth pattern of this stuff, Ken Johnson will probably live long enough for his crime to catch up with him.