There a particular personality that is given to self righteousness and imposing on others, and these self appointed arbiters quickly attach to these causes and

There a particular personality that is given to self righteousness and imposing on others, and these self appointed arbiters quickly attach to these causes and use them to police other people, nevermind the cause. The internet has made this kind of self righteous mob effortless, and they feed off each other making justice or the original cause completely secondary to their own need to impose their views. Civilized society depends on the rule of law. There is a large mechanism in place in any civilized society with an extensive process to first decide guilt and then give the guilty an opportunity to pay the price, reform and try again. This by definition rules out arbitrary individual perceptions of justice or injustice, discrimination or organizing to 'directly' deliver it, to prevent anarchy. Justice by definition cannot empower some arbitrary individuals or groups views over others. Activism targets laws or injustice based on reason and not individuals. The objective is not to shame or deliver consequences for an individual but change the law. Self righteous mobs on the other hand driven by their own opinions and the need to impose their views, rather than justice, target individuals. Discrimination is illegal and has a huge social, personal, and professional consequences. If an individual escapes that somehow it indicates a flaw in the rule of law which activism would target, not the individual. But that's not fulfilling for those driven by self importance. You may decide something is wrong but only the rule of law can make that decision objectively and enforce consequences. A mob convinced of its own infallibility sidetracks all that, evades accountability in favour of their own perceptions and in an exercise in pure self importance and injustice delivers consequences. That is little to do with justice and everything to do with vanity, self importance and inability to recognize the limitation of one own views, and the value of activism and rule of law.