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NAME OF THE LAW/POLICY: The government's stance on public lynching

LINK TO THREAD: Please link the thread

LAW/POLICY CATAGORY: Civil Liberties

OPTIONS:
1. Lynching is illegal
2. Lynching is legal but lynching that includes physical harm, minor or major is forbidden
3. Lynching, whether physical injury or public humilitation is legal
4. Local governments decides whether to legalize lynching

EFFECTS:
(1) +3 restrictive, +3 conservative
(2) +1 restrictive, +1 conservative
(3) +3 permissive, +3 progressive
(4) +2 permissive, +2 progressive, +3 devolution,

What is lynching?: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching

Without meaning to be a pedant, surely it's no longer lynching if it's legal, since lynching is extrajudicial by definition.

Well, how you call a legal execution by the crowd then?

I wouldn't say allowing lynching is actually progressive. It's got nothing to do with being progressive or being conservative. I think it changes how big government you are.

As James said, practically by definition, lynching is a form of extra-judicial punishment. To provide the definition provided by dictionary dot com:

to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.

Or to provide wikipedia's definition:

Lynching is an extrajudicial punishment by an informal group. It is most often used to characterise informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate a group. It is an extreme form of informal group social control such as charivari, skimmington, riding the rail, and tarring and feathering, but with a drift toward the public spectacle.

Since this is extrajudicial punishment, this isn't really something that should feature amongst the law options, because it isn't something that legally sanctioned. But I certainly think you've raised an interesting subject area here, and there is no reason players shouldn't RP lynchings happening in their nations. After all, they do occasionally happen in real-life, sadly.

This idea just popped out my mind so I wrote it.