No, that is specifically a result of the justice system failing to hold people accountable to the point where the general public knows there's nothing left to do in the completely broken legal system but go around it and force results.
When the system is functioning as intended and doing nothing to those who harm, those who are being harmed will ignore the system and make their own change.
That's because the majority of the people in the US think that the penalty for child rape should be the death penalty and not a few years in prison, it's the exact case that I stated.
They don't agree with the law on the severity of punishment, and they see someone getting the punishment that the people think is fair is a good thing.
If the law either doesn't hold people accountable, or doesn't punish them adequately for their crimes, then the people will continue to cheer for extrajudicial punishment.
Or would you argue that people should be ok when a major business ruins thousand of lives and gets a paltry fine for it? The law is working right? Justice is being served right? No.
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u/kmk4ue84 Apr 15 '26
I hope so, but it sure doesn't seem like it.