There are huge numbers of people who do not want government to exert its authority over common citizens, rather they want to use what they call social justice to control the people and prevent crime. However, in many regards history shows us this is a big mistake because the justice of the crowd is swift and violent, often permanent, and definitely unforgiving of the individuals it chooses on a whim to call out. In fact, justice by way of the social mob is fairly unjust as most past events have shown.
If you doubt this, and you'd like to see these types of scenarios play out in real time, it's easy to watch on Internet forums, blogs, and social networks as a group of people with a similar opinion will call out the individual who thinks a little differently. They will definitely go attack that person verbally, and abuse them. As the individual who doesn't agree gets pummeled, other people jump on board and start saying things that is out of character for them, and the whole group gets riled up like a pack of wolves.
This is exactly what happens with street gangs and violent criminal behavior where groups of people do almost the unthinkable. Things that they would never do on their own, but once they get into a group they are somehow in a different mindset. The Salem witch trials were very interesting in that regard, along with the French revolution where they beheaded all of the leadership and royalty. These things happen all the time, on smaller scale. It's how human behavior works, it's not a good thing, but it is the reality.
If we are to live in a free society, with freedom of speech and free liberty, and if we are to stand for the individual, and individual rights, then we must stay away from the use of society to enforce laws and behavior without some sort of buffer in between. I would say beware of those who demand justice and are willing to enlist the society to swarm against the individual, or anyone they call out is a perpetrator, because that isn't always; real justice.
You see, as the founder of a think tank, I am watching more and more drift towards this line of thinking, and the concepts of social control over the masses. I don't approve of that because I watch how easily the masses are controlled by the media, and the winds of current events, and things taken out of proportion on social networks. We are in a dangerous new age and we have to be very careful. This is serious business, and you only have to step back for a moment see it. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 24,000 articles by July 24, 2011 is going to be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off now..
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