[thrance]

> Vigilantism is always wrong. If you celebrate someone gunning down a defenceless person in the street, then you advocate for a world in which this is an acceptable thing for anyone to do.

I somewhat disagree, our democracies were built on violent, illegal revolutions. Vigilantism is not always wrong.

> I told him about my favorite philosophy, Stoicism, and how it could teach him to ignore distractions and focus his mind on living more deliberately.

It's funny how many of these online libertarian-ish guys preach "stoicism", a philosophy which famously asks you to be satisfied occupying your "natural" place in the universe, be it slave or Emperor or the Roman Empire.

Ultimately, I think this culture of "agentism" pushes some to a particular brand of individualism, in which it may seem that history is written by great men, heroes, who take actions in their own hands.