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I think it's safe to say that the costs of vigilantly mob justice is far higher than any benefit it might have. You usually end up with situations like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare

It's also impossible to have the full context of a story from the information available in a shame storm (often the other half of the story from the shame-ey is missing or not believed). The severity of the "punishment" that is doled out based on extremely thin "facts" is terrifying and not something a just society should encourage.




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