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Imogene 2022-01-28 08:20:47

When a group commits a crime collectively, the individual seems to have lost his sense of guilt, and he will not worry about taking responsibility. People beating up thieves to death, beating, smashing, and looting, and even the stampede of customers when the supermarkets are heavily discounted, and the crowding in the subway during work hours all fall into this category, the animal side of human beings.

Le Pen said in "The Crowd": "The ferocity of the collective feeling is intensified by the total disappearance of the sense of responsibility. The realization that there will be no punishment -- and the more the number, the more certain it is -- ---- and the momentary sense of power that arises because of the large number of people, it will cause the group to show some emotions and actions that an isolated individual cannot have. Therefore, it is easy for the group to do the worst extreme acts."

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An American Crime quotes

  • Gertrude Baniszewski: You know what it's like to be sick, Sylvia. I've been sick for so long, too. I can't... discipline my kids they was I should. I punish them I know, but... sometimes with my medicine I gets so I don't know what I'm doing.

    [begins to cry]

    Gertrude Baniszewski: And I care for them so much. Paula, the thing is... Paula's a lot like me. I had her when I was just about your age. Then Stephanie. Then all the others. Then John left... And here I am on medicine, doing whatever I can to keep my family together. I want something better for Paula... There has to be something better... And I need to protect my children...

    [cries]

    Gertrude Baniszewski: Do you understand that? You kids... you're all I've got... Thank you, Sylvia. Thank you for understanding, thank you.

  • Sylvia Likens: She sacrificed me to protect her children, and she sacrificed her children to protect herself.