I think you missed my point about outrage.
I said that it was all people had. I didn't say it was powerful enough. If you go back and look you'll see that I wrote that it only works in extraordinary circumstances.
If you say that someone only has a knife on his way to a gunfight, that doesn't mean you're saying that the knife is enough. You're just pointing out that that's all he has.
The larger arc of the story was to point out that laws or rules were needed, and that they exist elsewhere.