What happens when the human instinct to hunt down wrongdoers is encouraged to bloom and spread beyond the bounds of an ordinary justice system – the sort with clear rules about right and wrong – and which crimes might be more serious than others?
You don’t have to look far for an example. The wild west of social media has produced exactly this sort of pseudo law and order system – now known as “cancel culture”. The experiment has not, to put it mildly, worked well.
