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Originally Posted by photon
See, I don't really think that they are the scum of the earth.. if I was raised and lived in the same environment, I probably would have been right there with them. On the other hand if one of them had been born over here, he'd probably be just as appalled as me.
The problem is the government and religious leaders that keep the people uneducated and unenlightened so they can be controlled.
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I can see why that would be the case but it takes a certain lack of humanity to throw rocks at someone with the intent to kill them. The only real explanation that I could come up with to describe this widespread behaviour is a mob mentality where no one is responsible, the group is responsible, and when the group is made up of thousands of people how can you really blame a single person for the actions of such a vast number. It can be seen all the time in riots where people who normally wouldn't act in an aggressive manner would break objects and attack people just because they could.
Still though one would like to think that with certain exceptions people would have some inner good despite their upbringing.