Mob, including gang psychology does explain it. It doesn't make it right, but it does explain it.
If the initiators were the leaders, and the followers got a call...what are the followers going to do?
They knew what gang they were joining...and there are a number of reasons people joing gangs/mobs.
Mob psychology can be spur of the moment, or it can be a mentality or just "following orders" of the alpha dog.
Say in the old west, some ranchers caught someone stealing cattle.
They send riders out to the crew to come quickly as they are going to hang the cattle rustler.
Now, the sherrif hears of this, and rides out to stop the hanging...saying the accused rustler is entitled to a fair trial.
Was the lynch party a mob? Sure. Were those that came running to party with the lynch party predisposed to lynch a man without giving the man due process? Perhaps, perhaps they just want to keep their job.
Were the german soldiers, the grunts allowed to walk for their efforts in WWII?
Yes.
Why? They were just following orders...or potentially be killed themselves.
Gang dynamics, (include the Mafia here) are such that if you don't follow orders, you can get killed.
The behavior of all guilty parties should be punished, but it is much more of a complex phenomena because of the nature and structure of the group than some would like to admit.
If the initiators were the leaders, and the followers got a call...what are the followers going to do?
They knew what gang they were joining...and there are a number of reasons people joing gangs/mobs.
Mob psychology can be spur of the moment, or it can be a mentality or just "following orders" of the alpha dog.
Say in the old west, some ranchers caught someone stealing cattle.
They send riders out to the crew to come quickly as they are going to hang the cattle rustler.
Now, the sherrif hears of this, and rides out to stop the hanging...saying the accused rustler is entitled to a fair trial.
Was the lynch party a mob? Sure. Were those that came running to party with the lynch party predisposed to lynch a man without giving the man due process? Perhaps, perhaps they just want to keep their job.
Were the german soldiers, the grunts allowed to walk for their efforts in WWII?
Yes.
Why? They were just following orders...or potentially be killed themselves.
Gang dynamics, (include the Mafia here) are such that if you don't follow orders, you can get killed.
The behavior of all guilty parties should be punished, but it is much more of a complex phenomena because of the nature and structure of the group than some would like to admit.