YOU NEED TO LEARN WHAT THE WORD "VIGILANTE" MEANS! IF YOU ARE ASKING WHETHER OR NOT PENNY IS A VIGILANTE, YOU'RE EVEN DUMBER THAN THE PEOPLE WHO THINK HE'S GUILTY!!!
Daniel Penny wasn't on that subway car looking for trouble. He didn't go out of his way to go to a high-crime area, looking for a crime to stifle or a fight to break up.
Penny got out of class, and he was on his way to the gym. He was going about his normal day. He just happened to be in that subway car at that time.
Batman is a fictional vigilante. Batman doesn't just go about his normal day prepared in case a crime just randomly happens. What makes Batman a vigilante is that he puts himself into those situations willfully.
People keep using this fucking word in clear cases of self-defense and defense of others, and it's fucking daffy that none of these people know what the fucking word means.
I find the racist morons who are calling for Penny's blood mildly more tolerable than the people who are calling him a vigilante. Usually, there's overlap between the racist morons who are calling for Penny's blood and the people who are misusing the word.
That shouldn't be a surprise. You have to have the IQ of a toaster to think that Penny is guilty.
Still, everybody has access to a dictionary that he or she can access at any time. There is no way to interpret this case as an act of vigilantism.