Why is it not credible? That scene illustrates a point even more abstract than the one we are discussing. If the result is the same (the prisoner dies), does i

Why is it not credible? That scene illustrates a point even more abstract than the one we are discussing. If the result is the same (the prisoner dies), does it matter whether a legal authority performs the killing, or whether a mob does? I think it does. You may not agree with the legal authority's process or laws, but at the very least it is written down.