"Trial by 12 good men and true is a sound system." (a jury composed of twelve good men is a sound system), reflecting that the twelve people in the carriage who are brave enough to do justice and eliminate evil and promote good are the judges, but At the same time, they are also torturers. Rochetti, who kidnapped young children and brutally murdered them, deserves to die, but should these twelve "good guys" do it? These twelve people speak eight foreign languages and have noble identities. There are many princesses, celebrities, diplomats, businessmen, and colonels. Apparently, they were not willing to hand over the matter to the state apparatus, but used a folk tit-for-tat, eye-for-an-eye religious way to settle their grievances.
From another perspective, the power of the group can weaken the sense of morality. Everyone stabs a knife and everyone is a murderer, but everyone's concept and feeling that he is also a murderer has been weakened. The group is angry, and through unification patterns of behavior, alleviating personal responsibility, and constantly reinforcing in reality the slogans that guide their actions. As "The Crowd" put it, "As a result, the sense of responsibility once firmly bound to one person will disappear, and what the group gets is the most primitive instinctive expression and catharsis."
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