A spot of local justice does have some drawbacks: <There may be excesses and an occasional innocent victim, like the Swiss family may have been, but it mostly works very well, from what I have seen. >
Personally, I find local justice abhorrent. It's just street thug rules which is the antithesis of civilization.
There used to be enthusiastic lynchings in southern USA and in modern times there was a "dragging by vehicle until dead" instance - being melanin-rich was ipso facto evidence of guilt. That was local justice for you.
Freedom is great and means precisely freedom from the depredations of the local yokel thugs and distant powers.
When civilization is not enforced, as it increasingly is not in New Zealand, [yet paradoxically, government imposts, regulations, laws, restrictions and bureaucracy grow daily], people eventually take the law, and self-defence, into their own hands and enforce rules which have applied since jungle times in chimpoid and wolf pack tribes.
Unfortunately, government people mistake lots of rules and them confiscating and spending the money for civilization.
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