I don't have anyone I care enough about to place a bounty on, and if I did, I wouldn't be scared of them knowing that I have a problem with them.

That said, I'm happy to hunt bounties. I can also provide locator agents, depending on what's needed and how I'll be reimbursed.

This whole thing.

Very nice sentiment, but helping those ten people won't stop the one person who hurt me from going on to hurt others. So in practice a well-placed bounty could prevent harm to an even larger number of people than would be affected by my ten acts of charity.

If I get it in my head that somebody deserves stomping flat, pilot, it's not out of base anger - it's out of the cold conviction that the universe will be a better place once I'm done.

Perhaps we now have a discussion worth having. You raise the issue of defining the difference between vengeance and justice. Justice is a societal value that protects people from continued hurt. Criminal justice systems seek to punish and/or reform the offender in order to prevent repeat "hurting" of others. Vengeance is not justice. It does not have the controls nor the purpose of justice. The new bounty system appeals to vengeance, not justice. I see no value in it at all. The business model of the OP simply takes advantage of the continued desire for vengeance and does nothing to promote justice.

Justice requires societal consensus. Bounty placing and bounty hunting is mere individualistic violent grudge bearing. Especially among capsuleers, it has no redeeming value and will only generate a back and forth continued cycle of ongoing violence with no redeeming societal value.

In a better world, while I am helping the ten, law enforcement and the criminal justice system is taking care of justice so that I do not need to become a vigilante nor hire one.

Your entire analysis boils down to the notion that executions authorized by a legal system's mechanisms are inherently legitimate, and executions by vigilantes are illegitimate. The bounty system meets your criteria for legitimacy. The legal system that governs capsuleers has effectively deputized every single one of us to engage in assessing damages via bounties and leaving others to collect those damages within a separate segment of the legal framework.

I fail to see your grievance here.

While I admire your endeavours, placing a bounty on a pregnant mother of 250mil for a customer is excessive, no?

Excuse me, Mr. Quaid, but I feel where there is no due process, I feel there is also no real justice...

I-I've heard stories about people who have been placed under an excessively large bounty simply for not giving in the the whims of more rich and powerful capsuleers around them. So who will speak for the weaker among us, or those of us that don't wish to be violent, war mongering fools?

Um... I-It's just my opinion, but I believe endorsing wanton murder over personal vendettas is inexcusable. And I know, it doesn't seem like a big deal for a capsuleer to lose a few million isk and a large ship. For most of you, this is just an inconvenience, right? But please.... please... consider the baseliner crews and their families...

Thanks for your time.

While I admire your endeavours, placing a bounty on a pregnant mother of 250mil for a customer is excessive, no?

A pregnant mother of 250,000,000? Egads, what is she, a termite?

Ideals are nice and all and having a cause to fight for is alright, But in the end the winners of war write the history books and the losers write the songs. I'm just a hired gun, my only loyalty to my Corp, what little remains of my family, and whoever is paying my bills.

I like the service you're offering here Mr. Quaid, you strip away all pretense and whitewash and stab right into the heart of things. Whoever has the most cash is going to get the best guns and the best pilots, whoever gets those wins the wars. No pretense, no "moral high ground." Just business. I look forward to working with you in the future.

"It was just business!" was screamed back to me when I ended the man responsible for the deaths of those I cared about, pilot.

Just because it's "business" does not mean anything, and in some situation it's the ultimate insult. "I'm having everyone you care for killed. It's just business, you understand, nothing personal." Well I made it personal, and I dealt with it on my own.

I imagine that the majority of pilots that feel justified about placing bounties are the kinds that don't have the means themselves to deal with their grievances in person, hoping their ISK will encourage others to do for them what they can't. You do not need to hide who set that bounty in that case, or any case but this one - covert harassment.

The only thing this joke of a 'businessman' will provide is to help the ones who have loads of ISK, to much time on their hands and find pleasure in bothering others with it. Anyone can have bounties set on them, and high enough, they can cause great troubles for plenty of people. In most cases however the one's who do get this kind of treatment at least know who is doing it - and can respond in kind if they wish.

I think you are too kind with captain Quaid, captain Sharpe. A coward like him, fueling the needs and giving tools to other cowards, clearly cares little for the harm his actions can bring. He cares not for the lives of those he places the bounties on, nor their crew members, nor the reasons for the bounty, or anything else. I'd call him a mercenary, but he doesn't actually have the guts to do himself the jobs his coward patrons expect is done, so I'd just call him an empty, soul-less, merchant. A trader in the business of death, too.

A very good comment by Captain Sepherim. This "businessman" is nothing more than a leech seeking to profit from the pain and suffering of others and attempting to paint it as something somehow noble. He should just drop the flowery rhetoric and call his callous venture what it is. People would have more respect then I'm sure.