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[–]Node 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

But he clearly deserved the lynch mob. If their accuracy could somehow be increased to acceptable levels, they should be brought back.

[–]SoylentCapitalist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Mob rule should not be brought back. What a retarded proposal.

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You say mob rule is wicked but think about a case like the Leo Frank trial. A Jewish pederast, child rapist and murderer who is two or three times convicted but then uses his powerful friends to get his sentence reduced in a corrupt manner is lynched -- there were Blacks at the lynching too BTW.

Now I believe in a perfect world with a functioning legal system it's preferable for that not to happen but we don't live in that world and when people are so outraged by this what exactly is your objection to them killing Leo Frank?

[–]SoylentCapitalist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Outliers like Leo Frank shouldn't decide the system we use. If we had mob rule right now someone innocent like Rittenhouse could be hanging. The trial system is simply a more accurate and civilized way of doing things.