No, there was no mob justice. There was no mob. People lived between friends.Knew each other since they were little. A group of friends will try to solve the situation - not to punish.
You have no idea what I am talking about. For sure you never experienced - even for a little time, a "society" - even if it was small, where you could trust all the people around you. With everything you have. A family - but bigger. That's our natural state. That organization is alive. It tries to appear everywhere. Like grass through the asphalt. On the asphalt. It does not care - about the conditions around, like life it appears, wherever it can. You can see it growing, Civilization is dead, it's Frankenstein. When the power fails, Frankenstein dies. New York 1977. Not because people are "evil", just this is not natural.
http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html
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One day there will be so many houses, that people will be bored and will go live in tents. "Why are you living in tents ? Are there not enough houses ?" "Yes there are, but we play this Economy game"