After reading and viewing the mob mentality pieces, I conclude that people in mobs lose control of what is morally right. For example, Edmonds writes, mobs follow the other mob members, because they are “emotional” and “angry.” She also says “it only takes one act of violence to whip the crowd into a fury.” Mob members can be furious, bitter, or enraged. When people are so angry, they do not always think about what they are doing before they proceed to do it. “Being a part of a group can destroy people’s inhibitions, making them do things they’d never otherwise do.” (Edmonds) They energy of the mob can take over, and make people not think through their actions. For instance, if you were at the State Fair and everyone started running towards
