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From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe

A vigilante is a person or persons who ignore due process of law after a crime has been committed, instead enacting their own form of justice when they deem the response of the authorities to be insufficient. Vigilantism is generally denounced by official agencies and governments, especially when it gives way to criminal behavior on the part of the vigilante, even if such illegal actions save lives.

There are men, wrote Aristotle, so godlike, so exceptional, that they naturally, by right of their extraordinary gifts, transcend all moral judgment or constitutional control: 'There is no law which embraces men of that calibre: they are themselves law.'

- Heroes, by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, 2004.