Remove the word "the" between "like" and "Society" and you get the point of the episode. Justice always exists, it's naturally emergent, law merely "civilizes" the process. The issue is that in doing so, it also creates a system where the rulebreaker is able to be protected from the wrath of those they wronged (and their families, and their friends, and their neighbors, and their fellow countrymen), leading to corruption and crime. We consider "mob justice" to be "savage", but here is the most utopian city that we see on the entire show, everywhere else is complete dystopia.
One city on the show has a direct democracy, everything is voted on, and everything CAN be voted on, the vote goes to everyone, even to children, convicts, and outsiders, everything is done according to the ballot. The result is two people who hate each other ending up as the sole residents, how did this happen?
The population realized that since any issue could be brought up to ballot, people could rig future elections by using their vote to get rid of the people most likely to disagree with them, the minority was thus pruned off repeatedly, first it was just by denying them the ability to vote or submit an issue to vote on, then it was by evicting them from the city, imprisoning/enslaving them, or simply killing them.
So this is what happened, repeatedly, and there was a lot of shenanigans as well, such as people being brought in from the outside and tricked into voting a certain way, and of course there was a ton of electoral fraud.
At the end, the only people left were two men who were the sole remaining residents at the opposite end of the city, each owning on side of the city and wanting to claim the other half, they call elections on the issue to get rid of the other one, but it always ends in a draw since sometime into the voting wars, all outsider learned to steer clear of that place, it was simply a horrible place for anyone to visit, let alone live in.
So the main character decides to check it out, and finds that it's occupied by two very crazy people, she solves the issue by giving each of them weapons and telling them to fix their problems without resorting to the ballot, they decide to end things peacefully, since neither felt comfortable with just shooting the bastard across from them, they decide to try and rebuild their city, but on a new foundational ideology.
Hence the war between tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum had come to a conclusion.
That show sounds badass. I didnt watch the ep, but I probably will now.
Really into dystopian social constructs as it applies to complex systems in general. ie: I like theorizing on the badness of ideas and ideals.
Its a nice deep topic too. My family is from Texas and southern states, and the culture tends(tended) to prop up the notion that the wild west controlled anarchy model was in fact superior and its a fascinating thing to consider. I zap people with 'omerta' explanations sometimes for the same point. I remember how it was explained to me (in Sicily), "If you kill me, you are forgiven, but if I live, you will be destroyed", strikes me as similar if not the same mentality in a different shade, as in the need for authoritarian security forces is minimized in favor of each man or community of, taking care of the 'baddies' internally and in a manner which is generally recognized publicly as 'what happens to xyz around here'
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