2
Jan
2011
Ninjas and Drug dealers!
WBNS-TV is reporting that Clifton, NJ police have arrested two men claiming to be Ninjas!
Calling themselves ”Shinobi Warriors,” the 19 and 20 year old men were carrying knives, throwing stars, swords, nunchucks and a bow and arrows. The ‘Ninja’s’ were attempting to fight drug dealers in order to clean the streets of crime.
According to WBNS the two men accused drug dealers and users of having “committed sin of passing impurity” to others and that the “wind guides us to those of impure heart and intent.”
The bigger questions to answer here are:
- What is morally wrong (if anything) about these dorky Batman type figures to try to beat up some drug dealers, the scum of society?
- In an ordered society (one with a social contract), is it okay for ‘Ninjas’ to administer justice? (rather than the police)
- What would Hobbes or Locke think of the Shinobi Warriors?
- What are some other examples in Current Events of ‘vigilante-like’ people? Are these ‘Ninja’s’ different?