By: Kiyani

Kiyani — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:51:55 +0000

This happens in societies where there is no rule of law and might is right. It’s the growing frustration due to insecurity that has forced people to take law in their own hands.
What they are doing is not right and to stop it the only long term measure is to enforce law for all people whether rich or poor.

By: anokie

anokie — Sun, 18 May 2008 16:34:40 +0000

a terrible illustration of the ‘mob mentality’. what one person alone, or in small groups of two or three would consider unthinkable, becomes acceptable in the relative anonymity of a mob. A dehumanizing variation of ‘everyone is doing it so that makes it ok and makes me less guilty because I was only one small part of the mob’. everyone would understand ‘enough is enough’, but as a message to thieves, wouldn’t it have been sufficient to ‘rough them up’ a bit, then turn them over to the law? or put them on public display with a sign or signs stating something to the effect that ‘this is a thief caught in the act’ to publicly humiliate them, then let the law have them. An angry mob’s version of ‘justice’ is an uncivilized expression of uncontrolled brutality that robs each participant of a bit of humanity and leaves a lifetime of living with the shame in it’s wake. One more example of ‘man’s inhumanity towards man’. In the photograph, the dead men were thieves, the living men murdered the dead men. Which ones will suffer any long-term effects of their actions.

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