Re:This Guy Has My MacBook
by mike_organon on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @11:38PM
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Yes, that's better than a lynch mob with no rule of law.
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Is it, really?
I for once would pick living amongst a disorganized mob who would lynch me upon suspicion of doing something that I also consider unjust, over an organized society that would punish me, through the best procedures, for something that I find my fundamental right.
Neither case is ideal, obviously, but it's better for a society to miss procedures than a sense of individual rights.
Also, I think it is far easier for a society to build procedures/laws than change radically its perceptions on what is right and what is wrong.