The rebel who helped Jack pick up his moped and then noticed that he was a foreigner let him go instead of alerting the other rebels?
shareMaybe the guy just rolled with rebels just to be on the "safe" side. Or maybe he wasn't as messed up in the head like some of them.
shareHe probably noticed that Jack had his family with him so that rebel probably had a family too and wasn't as messed up as some of the others.
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To demonstrate that not all people are willing to surrender their individual morality to the mob, as well, I believe to help humanize the people involved. There are always psychopaths just waiting for society to break down, just so that they can indulge in their base desires, while others, as was mentioned by Hammond, were trying to oust a corrupt government that would enrich itself at the cost of the lives and freedoms of the rest of their people.
something terribly clever.
I liked that moment as well, for the reasons you give.
I also noticed that the man seemed frightened too; it seemed like he was just trying to get home to who or whatever he held dear by moving along with the mob; he looked caught in a human undertow.
I saw a mob start once at a surf competition.
It was terrifying. In an instant five hundred people surged forward and swerved here and there exactly like a swarm of bees.
I read Ann Coulter's Demonic ( dealing with mob mentality )years ago; your post personifies it!
A dormant, potential version is " sheeple. "
He probably saw he had kids, and didn't believe in what these people were doing but just was going along otherwise he would be killed.
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