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by Idontknowmyuser 3134 days ago
Well to each his ideals and his priority of ideals.

I for one think that:

  * social ostracisation is a form of punishment.

  * It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

  * social media in most cases are worse at determining 
    guilt  than the justice system.

 and view that:

  - social media and public opinion in general have 
    favored the accused in the past( victim blaming,..) 
    and as an overcorrecting favors the accuser now. In 
    both cases such a system leads to unfairness and 
    unregulated punishment.

These 3 ideals and one experience lead me to prefer a world where all crimes no matter their nature are decided on by court. if that's strange, well I'm strange.

Although, I'd like to say that in this idealised situation the victim is free to relate those abuses in his closed social circle and to the public after the judgment is made