I wish this kind of behavior was new. It's not, it's just the latest version of Vigilantism. It's the result of people believing that the rule of law is insuffi

I wish this kind of behavior was new. It's not, it's just the latest version of Vigilantism. It's the result of people believing that the rule of law is insufficient; of thinking that they are a better enforcer of what they perceive as the rule of law. I'm not sure humanity as a whole can get away from this. Just being different is enough to trigger people's feelings of "other", to become the target of a mob fueled by hatred and fear. And everyone is capable of being different. But, while we're not going to get away from it as a people, we can get away from it as individuals. Don't join the mobs. Don't react to the initial outrage that we feel when reading something. Sleep on it, and prefer to let the law deal with it (or work to change the laws so it can deal with it) over taking it into our own hands.