This is a follow-up to a post I've made on Reddit a few years ago.
Recently due to the worsening general situation in the world the intrusive thoughts in myself about "hurting bad people" has increased. While all the fantasies specifically exclude innocent people as targets, in the end it'd be equally terrible by most standards if carried out.
A fantasy is that if I am ever robbed by thieves in the streets or in home I would seek to overpower them and flip the roles, which obviously require sheer luck. But let's use the handwavium here and say that I pull it off; the first thing I would do is open up any livestream, blogs, emails, photo, social media websites I can find and disseminate demands against governments or companies to stop whatever unpopular decision they're doing or gonna do. For the latter think of Google's impending destruction of inactive accounts since I got some accounts there that I couldn't log into even though I know the correct password, due to "security issues".
I might give them around a week to comply and if they fail to comply, I might commit murder-suicide against my hostages and myself, with the expectation that SWAT teams by then would've surrounded where I am in.
I hope that this will not come to pass at all. I can think of some god from the machine solutions to get out of the predicament such as getting in touch with someone close to Google's high level like Sundar Pichai or Vint Cerf, or perhaps some political figures such as senators who could legislate to limit/stop practices such as indiscriminate destruction of inactive accounts which are unexpected side effects from digital regulation laws.
Now I'm sliding deeper because my country Malaysia has by now announced that they're going to enact privacy-destroying online age verification and ID laws which are going to heavily affect my bottom line, instead of more sensible measures like hand gesture verification which protect privacy.
Seeing developments like that happening across the world, including Australia, I have the urge to stop it whatever it takes. There will be no ehrenlos violence against normal innocent people as the targets will be exclusively be bad people such as robbers who attacked me first. The beginnings of a manifesto has started and it will include many things such as the inspirations behind the yet-to-happen killing and complaints against Big Tech's enshittification.
I think I'm going to do the Luigi Mangione maneuver if the privacy-violating "age verification" nonsense expands.