There is such a thing as a group mind frenzy. We have seen many examples of this in our own lifetime. Think back on the Jones Kool Aid thing; wasn't that something like 900 dead? And that bunch in, was it Arizona, who laid themselves out on their dormitory like beds and took poison; weren't they supposed to be picked up by space ships or some such? And the group who set fire to their own compound and killed even scores of women and children. I think one of the reasons the law does not force those men on the Utah/Arizona border who have so many wives, and so many of them are underage making it rape by our laws, to give up the practice is the state legal agencies are afraid of a big shoot out or something and lots of innocents, especially children, dying. What drives me nuts there is that the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and so on wives are getting welfare for themselves and their children as unwed mothers EVEN THOUGH they live in those humongous houses with the First Wife and the man! They all swear to the Law that they are not married to the man, although they really did go through a marriage ceremony and share turns in sleeping with him.
I mean, Really! What groups of human beings will or will not do is beyond mind blowing. Would you have been one of those millions in India just last week who traveled hundreds of miles to bathe in that holy river with all the sweat and urine and excrement in it and then hundreds died in that stampede? No, I don't believe you would. But we are capable of being brain washed to actually seek out death. Widows in India used to throw themselves on their husband's funeral pyres and perish.
