NFL releases new topic

The National Forensics League released the March-April resolution several days ago:

Resolved: Vigilantism is justified when the government has failed to enforce the law.

Of course, this topic will be used for state competitions and national qualifiers across the country.

Thoughts on the new resolution?

Any topic that could potentially include cases dealing with Batman is good in my book.

It would be nice if there were more than like 5 articles about vigilantism.

Five might be a stretch...It is hard to believe that the NFL Wording Committee thinks it is a good idea to pick these topics that simply are not issues in academic literature ("kill one" was a fairly similar situation). Although these might be interesting issues to discuss amongst members of a university philosophy department, I struggle to see the relevance to public policy or even philosophy in general.