Mob Psych (was Re: Immortality and Resources)

From: Michael Butler (mbutler@ocv1.ocv.com)
Date: Thu Jan 30 1997 - 19:18:26 MST

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Societies don't commit crimes: individuals do. Mobs don't have enough of
a mind to be any more capable of crime than frogs are capable of crime.
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"Disperse, ye rebels! Disperse, damn you!"

There are mobs and mobs. So rioting isn't a crime the "mob"
committed... so what else is new. Thou-they art God...

MMB, at but not for OCC

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