Fairness and justice is for the courts.
In the streets? Lol get fucked. Don’t be an asshole unless you want to be treated like one.
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Dragonstaff@leminal.space 3 weeks agoThat guy’s a violent asshole who should go to jail too. We have courts for a reason.
I read another story where some lady accused a guy of kidnapping his own son. Bystanders grabbed him (which makes sense), but then another asshole broke his ribs, kicking him like this.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
luciferofastora@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Mob justice is how “that evil witch walked across my fields and now my harvest is rotten” turns into lynching innocents. If I can grab someone and accuse them of something and other people jump in on good faith that I’m being truthful, there’s a risk that they’ll end up beating up an innocent if I wasn’t.
What they should do at best is hold the other down for professional truth-finders to come sort out whether the accused actually is an asshole or whether I’m the asshole trying to frame them.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
In principle I agree with you but this really requires faith in the justice system to always work. In this case for sure it’s correct, but I wouldn’t be comfortable taking it as a universal rule in our current actual society.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
humans love a reason to beat somebody up. quite scary
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yeah we do. Don’t intentionally break the social contract. FAFO.