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Originally Posted by tendulkar23
As much as people may say that this is good and that people who participated in the riot are "losers", it's still an interesting subject. There's been cases where a group of people watch a woman get raped and not one of them call 911 because they think someone else will do it. The mob mentality is fascinating, it's one of those things that proves that we are animals after all.
We're trained from a very young age to fit in with our peers and act "cool". This is basically what happens when the "cool" people choose to vandalize and loot. If you had the group of 4 or 5 "cool" kids in a grade 2 class to do something, there would be 20 kids that copied them and then 4 or 5 "social outcasts" who didn't. It's interesting how we think we grow older and mature, when the same things happen in every age group.
It's easy to say that you would condemn every "bad" thing in the world, but I guarantee that you have participated in something that will make you out to be a hypocrite.
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What you speak of in the first paragraph is known as Genovese syndrome (or in layman's terms, the bystander effect). The more people present during an emergency situation, the less likely any one particular person will deem their involvement necessary, on the assumption that "someone else will step up".
A 'mob mentality' you reference in the second paragraph is unrelated to it.