You say that like it's a bad thing. Going around the corrupt government to do the right thing is good and right.
Every time I've asked you refuse to respond. You live in the city right?
Two different levels of thought going on here, I fear.
The first is a personal level. The community dispensing justice that they desperately need to protect themselves. That is good... to a point. It’s good because it reinforces the idea of civilization. That there are rights and wrongs and those who prey on the weak and innocent should be punished and driven off. This personal level of view can quickly get out of hand though, and that takes us to...
the societal level. Looking at it from this level, you can see the symptom of vigilantism as the society rots away. Without a social contract of whose sense of justice will be bowed to, there is no justice but the mob’s whim.
There was vigilantism during our Revolution, as there was in the French Revolution. The leaders of the mob in our revolution, however, were able to keep control of the mob. The French leaders feed the mob more and more victims of it’s vigilante justice.
Because it's a meaningless distinction. I lived in Deep East Texas for over 10 years, several miles outside of a town of 882, and 100 miles from a city over 50,000. We drove 20 miles to get groceries in the metropolis of Jasper, which was under 10,000 then. However, my answer would have been the same then, as it is now. I didn't magically change the moment I set foot in Dallas.