Quote Originally Posted by Kraco View Post
Even if they were the dumbest picks, it still was unbelievable in this day and age. Something like that would have seemed plausible a couple of hundreds of years ago, but hardly today.
That's exactly what mob mentality does to normally rational people. That's how groups of people see UFOs, leprechauns in Alabama trees, and all other kinds of fairly recent herd mentality displays.

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - Agent K.