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Originally Posted by invisibleairwaves
On the other hand, re: these rioters are good kids who got swept up in the mob mentality...nonsense. I'm a 20-year-old male, right in the demographic that's supposedly psychologically incapable of rational thought when these kinds of events take place, and I was in the middle of that crowd. The thought of taking part in violence never crossed my mind, and my instincts were to get the hell out of there. These people made a conscious choice to be there and participate, and they deserve see some consequences as a result of it.
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Bingo, I'm 23 now, but there were certainly times in highschool and early college where I easily opted to make the less popular choice and leave some parties or events in which I didn't agree with for the nature of them.
Throw the book at them, and I have no problem in the public shaming of those who were actively involved in the riots. I have no sympathy with even certain friends who decided to stick around till well past 10 PM just watching the riots. Even though they didn't participate, they helped the riot keep going by blocking the 100s of idiots from being arrested by the police.
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