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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 452862" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Oh, it doesn't excuse the behavior at all. Just explains it. And yes, even they said that there was a percentage that were just in it for kicks. There is always a percentage of people who will take advantage of such situations for their own personal gain.</p><p></p><p>But in my opinion it's important for us to realize and remember how quickly mob mentality can kick in during the right atmosphere and can be set off even over something fairly minor. I'm not saying the incident that triggered the riots was minor, just that it doesn't always take something major to trigger it if the atmosphere is ripe. People tend to forget that because they want to forget it. Mob mentality is a scary thing that feeds off itself into a monster. </p><p></p><p>The current atmosphere is ripe, maybe over ripe, in certain areas around the world, not just in the US or Europe. </p><p></p><p>I don't worry so much with where I'm located although the unemployment rate is sky high and the poverty level along with it. It's hard to get a mob mentality going when you've know people your entire lives and your neighbors are not strangers in any sense of the word. Plus people here naturally put stores back due to being rural against bad weather. I worry for Nichole because in the larger cities it's much more easily triggered when you're surrounded by strangers. I'm not saying it couldn't happen here, just that it would take more to get it triggered.</p><p></p><p>When the riot first broke out in London I paid attention. When it began to spread to other areas of the city, I started watching the news both on and offline......but once it spread to other parts of the city it stopped being about the original trigger.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 452862, member: 84"] Oh, it doesn't excuse the behavior at all. Just explains it. And yes, even they said that there was a percentage that were just in it for kicks. There is always a percentage of people who will take advantage of such situations for their own personal gain. But in my opinion it's important for us to realize and remember how quickly mob mentality can kick in during the right atmosphere and can be set off even over something fairly minor. I'm not saying the incident that triggered the riots was minor, just that it doesn't always take something major to trigger it if the atmosphere is ripe. People tend to forget that because they want to forget it. Mob mentality is a scary thing that feeds off itself into a monster. The current atmosphere is ripe, maybe over ripe, in certain areas around the world, not just in the US or Europe. I don't worry so much with where I'm located although the unemployment rate is sky high and the poverty level along with it. It's hard to get a mob mentality going when you've know people your entire lives and your neighbors are not strangers in any sense of the word. Plus people here naturally put stores back due to being rural against bad weather. I worry for Nichole because in the larger cities it's much more easily triggered when you're surrounded by strangers. I'm not saying it couldn't happen here, just that it would take more to get it triggered. When the riot first broke out in London I paid attention. When it began to spread to other areas of the city, I started watching the news both on and offline......but once it spread to other parts of the city it stopped being about the original trigger. [/QUOTE]
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