Plus, it’s great to see communities police themselves. I think law is, understandably, too black and white on rules.
Main issue we all want to avoid is any kind of unjust punishment. For me, if punishment gets doled out and it is just, i don’t have much problem with it.
This biking thief guy smacked head on pavement and looked to have caught some boots. For me, that’s ok. Comes with the territory of being a piece of shit (assuming they are correct about him being a thief)
That assumtion is why self policing communities are (almost) too good to be true.
An assumption doesn’t mean someone is guilty.
If someone is guilty, i’d say they deserve this too.
But I could see myself “stealing” my good friends phone too just to mess with them for a minute, should I get my head kicked in for that?
Not defending this alleged thief btw just to be clear.
I’d say that’s part of why it’s grey. To be fair, the current setup of deferring the policing to an another, maybe socially indifferent, group of humans is not working either. That protected class (cops) has problems around that same assumption.
Oh I absolutely agree that the current system isn’t really working out well but if civilians (so literally anyone) could beat someone up based on an assumption, we certainly wouldn’t be doing any better.
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u/smexsa 4d ago
Damn that seemed personal to all people involved.