The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[jwb]

Originally Posted by elphenor

you might murder, most people probably don't need the law

it doesn't take that many bad apples, lol

If there were no consequences, you wouldn't rob a bank?

Or a store?

Or a random person?

Everyone's line is different and even with laws like 10-20-life there's no shortage of people willing to cross it. So you're delusional if you think minus the prison sentence that there wouldn't be many more examples of this.

[jwb]

Originally Posted by elphenor

Law actually exists to protect the accused more than anything

the mob will weed out anti-social behavior ruthlessely absent a formal process

lol yes you're delusional

[The Batlord]

I don't really want a mob lynching me for some anti-social behavior there wouldn't be a law about.

[jwb]

And it wouldn't happen cause if mob outrage were that on point they would already be in effect, law or no law

Yet the only time people seem to do that is when they get whipped up into a tribal frenzy and Lynch someone innocent.

[OccultHawk]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brazil-...te-2019-07-30/

Brazil prison riot leaves 57 dead, 16 decapitated in "settling of accounts" between rival gangs

Damn.

[OccultHawk]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/...184528614.html

In Sudan.

Four school children among five shot dead by security forces during rally against rising costs, opposition groups say.

The people of Sudan must be the strongest most resilient people on the planet. Machine gun deaths do not weaken their resolve. They never give up.

[jwb]

Originally Posted by elphenor

I thought they'd be dissuaded by the law, was that not your whole point

good point actually

The times people have been lynched were largely during times the law wasn't really enforced

I guess my point is more that this doesn't actually work as a form of justice since the mob is just as likely to lynch the innocent as they are the guilty.

It seems like it would be an even harsher and more unjust form of justice than our current system, flawed as it is.

And I think most murderers would get off scott free
Especially if they organize into gangs or cartels that enforce their own sort of rules on the populace, which is what tends to happen in States where the institutions are weak and incapable or unwilling to uphold basic law and order.

[Plankton]

Some kinda Gorilla Vampire insurgent.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by elphenor

why did someone shoot up a garlic festival btw

The smell?

[The Batlord]

Batman Beyond is finally getting an HD remaster