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I like this as a first-resort, very much, but alone its rather toothless.

Ancient decentralised legal systems (Anglosaxon, Gaelic, Norse) and modern (Somali Xeer, Pashtunwali) approximate that, but always with compensation in the foreground, and "follow the legal process or there's gonna be a clan war" in the background.
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Rich Nost 2y ago

Because mob justice never happens in the absence of the law.

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Low Information Voter 2y ago

Mob justice is rather unpleasant, and communities, even frontier mining camps, tend to develop formalised legal systems pretty fast.

People don't need to agree on the outcomes, but the overwhelming majority do need to agree on process.

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Low Information Voter 2y ago

States get in the way of this, and impose systems responsive to the needs of power seekers in the metropole rather than the actual justice-seekers and their communities.