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Reminiscent of the Boston Bomber "manhunt" on Reddit, where they named a suicide victim as the bomber. IRC, the family harassed while they were in mourning as a

• A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago
  I cannot overstate how important this is. There are is a real reason why we tried to move away from mob justice as society. The conclusion however is that since mob justice is being demanded more and more often, something is wrong going on with how justice is being dispensed and there is a clear lack of balance in the distribution thereof. Hence the mobs. Frankly, we should all be terrified. I talked with busy-bodies before. My neighbor was one too. They have uses, but that behavior should remain an oddity and not a permanent feature of society. It is asking for real trouble.
  • icepat 4y ago
    Absolutely. The reason we use a judiciary system is to avoid a major problem of the mob: the most convincing voice is the one that the crowd listens to. You don't need proof, you just need to be compelling. That's the standard of evidence in mod justice. Now, I'm not blind to the fact that the justice system in any country is flawed. That said, it's far less flawed than a group of people with metaphorical torches listening to the guy on the largest soapbox.