Posted by sigismund on October 10, 2011, at 7:58:36
In reply to Re: Retribution » Dinah, posted by hyperfocus on October 5, 2011, at 17:53:52
> Most people on their own would not feel capable of hanging and castrating a man or putting a burning tire around his neck. But get 10-15 people together in a group and it's like there's no evil they're incapable of doing.
Of course. Doing it together normalises it. There must be, or at least one will always think so, perfectly good reasons for doing evil if everyone else is doing it. Or they will tell you it is necessary, or for a good reason or something. It has been going on forever.
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