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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
I think this at all protests - and there's probably something out there - but always wonder what the psychology is behind sticking around to be arrested at these things. There's always a point where its over and your basically just waiting to be arrested.
Is it just a pride thing - that you stuck it out? Hoping that someone will do something crazy and incite a riot?
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Maybe? There might also be a 'Groupthink/Peer Pressure' element as well?
One day your life will go back to normal and people will be talking about this and they probably didnt come alone, maybe they attended with friends and family and nobody wants to be the wuss who left first?
I really dont know.
Then again, I dont really know what kind of radical injustice it would take for me to take part in something like this either, so I acknowledge that I dont understand the ethos behind all of this.
They're chanting for 'Freedom' and 'Justice' but thats all just nonsense buzzwords that I decry our Government using to get out of actually dealing with issues.
I mean, they are free and there really wasnt any injustice. Certainly not anything egregious enough to warrant this. And then its just escalated to asset seizure and actual real-world consequences. And for what?
This whole thing seems like a farce. The protest is ridiculous, law enforcement and authorities have been laughably incompetent so...yeah, I hope it was worth it to freeze their asses off in Ottawa in February?