MORE THAN A HASHTAG 2.1

Love Mercy

Sometimes people get attacked online for no reason at all. Those attacks are simply hateful. But sometimes people get attacked online because someone feels wronged by them and is looking for justice.
 
People might start hashtags, declare campaigns, or rally their friends to go after someone online because they believe they've done something wrong and must be punished.
 
There are countless stories of people who have received so much negative online backlash because of their bad behavior that they've lost their jobs or even had to change their names.
 
Now, justice (the subject of our current series) is about making wrong things right.
 
Usually, making wrong things right requires someone to be punished or held accountable for their actions. But can our desire to punish someone who has done wrong ever go too far? Is there another way? When we look at the internet and how it’s easy to attack or write people off, do we have mercy? Do we understand what mercy is?
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• Why do you think it's so easy for people to be mean to each other?
• Have you ever seen someone get attacked for their bad behavior? What happened?
• Let's recap: how would you define "justice"? ​​