Vigilantism and the Lawful Alignment in OotS

[Reddish Mage]

I doubt that.

In any case, the moral standard of the D&D Player's Handbook is based on the writer's opinion--not some kind of vote. If it wasn't, based on my observations here and on the Internet in general, I imagine it wouldn't be evil to judge races rather than individuals...and yet, there it is, in the description of the Lawful Evil alignment.

Your right in that the official alignment rules is not a vote. However in the absence of clarity from WoTC, what is written is so vague we have naught but to take general conceptions of these notions to fill in the gap.