It's perfectly ok to be uncomfortable with how this has been playing out and dogpiling on
Kokiden
is just proving their point. All of this really should have been handled by proper legal authorities and not been aired publicly until actual guilt has been determined by actual professionals.
And not just determining guilt but also determining punishment. For instance, regardless of how you feel about ZeRo and his actions, he does have dependents like his fiancee and his family in Chile that would then be hurt by his loss of livelihood. That and other things that are still murky about the severity of his alleged crimes are something the Twitter mob with their very black and white mentality has never taken into consideration, but that a judge would when sentencing. Case in point was when the alleged victims tried to get his fiancee involved and made insinuations about the legitimacy of their relationship and people even demanded she provide her birth certificate as proof.
The courts aren't perfect by any stretch of the imagination and I could do a whole write-up on how flawed they are. But that doesn't mean that mob justice is any better or even equal either. Twitter court takes everything they see at face value and is inherently biased towards one side from the start. The fact that an alleged victims' statement could be a lie, that even legitimate victims could be deceptive or manipulative about the severity or their agency in the encounter and especially that confessions can be coerced by substantial pressure (hi Twitter) is completely lost on them.
A proper legal investigation includes the authority to issue warrants for these chat logs from tech companies, criminal psychology and witness experts to interview all those involved and determine who is lying or telling the truth or simply not remembering or misunderstanding and painting an overall picture of the situation,
and a penal system that naturally discourages and punishes frivolous and false accusations.
Twitter court has to rely on heavily filtered and biased snippets of information that is judged by tens of thousands of biased anonymous individuals that don't know their ass from their elbow. Not to mention that regardless of the veracity of the claims, the accused is undoubtedly going to have to go above and beyond to prove these allegations false (hi M2K) and false accusers can often just slink back into the ether of the net with no deterrent to future false accusations while almost always successfully damaging the brand of the accused.
And that's the inherent problem with democratizing these types of things. The people that are forced to play judge, jury, and executioner are not equipped to do so. And not just in terms of expertise but there is also the fact natural fallacies and
logical quirks can make what is an objective determination to the viewer actually a subjective one. That's before getting into the fact that the aforementioned black and white thinking lets people get lazy and think that any moral wrongdoer deserves everything coming their way without considering the consequences and who else might get caught in the crossfire. For example, the anonymous person who outed Keitaro did so without the consent of the actual victim, who wasn't particularly happy about it.
Make no mistake, there has not been any actual justice here. Yes bad people have no doubt been rooted out but with plenty of collateral damage and potentially innocent people being condemned, ultimately making this a zero sum game. It is thus not wrong to feel disturbed and frightened that this eventually turned into a bunch of people, with no actual relation or business commenting on these situations and drunk on their own sense of self-righteous justice, torching everything that looked like a witch in sight.
