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Yes, following mob rules as decided by the mob.
Much preferable to the current system of rules written by rulers, enforced by abusers.
I mean my mind goes to lynchings and such. That's not great imo
When I think of cops my mind goes to bombing babies in their bedrooms, shooting the dog, burning down the house, and planting drugs on the corpse. That’s not great imo.
When I think of "mob rule" or community policing if you want to frame it with less sinister words, I think of people stepping up to defend their community
Sounds like the mob thing can be good or bad depending on the mob in question. Which imo makes it same as police in that respect
The core difference being you are part of the mob, you are not part of the police.
I don't know if that helps if the other people in the mob are shit and want to do shitty things tbh.
I’m sorry to hear you live in such a shitty local community. Where I am most people are extremely friendly, supportive, and welcoming but I do live in a lower economic area so that generally helps ground people I find.
Unfortunately building people up to being decent people is a different and more challenging task. We need to be looking at education reform and empowerment for people to become aware and responsible members of a society rather than individuals who rely on the state to do it all for them.
I'm not talking from just my personal experience, that'd be a bit short-sighted.
Oh well you should. You are only human, work on a human scale and improve your locale.
That makes sense if you are only advocating for it for your specific community. I thought this was a larger change tbh.
It is for everywhere. It is up to every community to improve themselves.
Each small commune works to improve itself and co-operate with its neighbours as a greater whole.
But if you're advocating it globally then shouldn't you consider the global ramifications of what you're advocating for? It seems you're advocating for global change but just told me to focus on my local community instead of the overall effect, which feels strange.
I advocate for far more change than simply police. The global ramifications of all these things together is a positive, that’s why I advocate for them.
Global change through local action. I don’t see how this is so confusing?
When I looked at the possible issues with crowd justice you assumed I was talking about my own community and seemed to suggest I should focus on that, instead of the global ramifications (such as those possible bad outcomes). That was/is confusing to me.
If you are hoping that this will be a global policy of cause you should take into account that some communities are racist, creepy and just horrible, so you'll get that sort of policing that aligns with their views. In that respect you might get some better communities and some worse, so it doesn't seem that different to just normal policing.
Okay but right now the mob wants fascism, so... no.
Maaaaate, right now you already have fascism.