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The hope is that this will be a system shock that will expunge the crime and corruption that plagues this country. It's probably wishful thinking that after al
by honksillet 10y ago
The hope is that this will be a system shock that will expunge the crime and corruption that plagues this country. It's probably wishful thinking that after all this that normal rule of law will be easily established. The pendulum always swings too far. There will be a hangover.
- JumpCrisscross 10y agoThat's always the hope. This vigilantism is a symptom of decades of rotting institutions. Maybe a fraction of this wave of violence's victims were guilty of bona fide crimes. But most were politically-convenient targets. I don't know of a single country, in history, that recovered from a similar event inside two generations. Revolution would have been more productive.
- hackuser 10y ago> This vigilantism is a symptom of decades of rotting institutions The institutions have been growing stronger for decades, I think. It's a slow process, but democracy only began 30 years ago and has been progressing since then.
- analog31 10y agoI read a translation of Njal's Saga while on a trip to Iceland. It was basically the story of a decades-long blood feud. That's what came to mind when I read this article.