FWI: Someone uses the “Man or Bear” thought experiment as a motive for vigilante justice against domestic abusers

Context: 1. https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/06/us/man-bear-safety-tiktok-question-cec/index.html 2. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2024/04/30/man-bear-tiktok-debate-explainer/73519921007/

Sometime in the near future, the controversial and viral man or Bear in the woods thought experiment is reintroduced into public opinion when someone is accidentally records an act of vigilante justice in which a man confronts another man abusing a woman, before beating the abuser to death with a baseball bat while proclaiming, “This time, I’m the bear!”

Upon being arrested and questioned by police, the vigilante goes on a tirade claiming how he was directly inspired by the man or Bear in the woods thought experiment and that what he had done was intended to be his “answer” to the thought experiment.

It quickly becomes clear that authorities are dealing with an individual who believes the only morally right answer to the “Man or Bear” thought experiment is vigilante justice.

Police also find a video manifesto where the individual actively encourages all people to follow his example and “Send a message to men who give women reasons to choose the bear.”

Does this change the discourse of women’s safety around men? Do we see copycat acts? Would someone like this individual STILL give women a motive to “choose the bear”, so to speak?