If we let
our emotions control our logic and thinking it can be very destructive. In the
case of the witch trails hysteria overruled logic and empowered people to
believe lies about their neighbors and people they had thought highly of. They
were sometimes accused of absurd crimes. Innocent lives were taken away in a
snap. Those accused were hanged, stoned, tortured, and even locked up in prison
until they died.
McCarthyism is one of the huge hysterias
that happened in the United States. If any one were to say that you were for
communism in the 1920’s, it would have been your worst nightmare. People lost
their careers because of this. Their way of life was not the same as it was
before. Lynching in the United States is another example of hysteria. Whites
accused blacks of doing things that they were not permitted to do, for instance,
whistling at white woman. The Witch Trails, McCarthyism, and The Lynching in
the United States, are a couple examples of what can happen when people loose
control of their own logic and thinking. They end up hurting others because of
their fear. A person can falsely accuse another person and make it look real to
obtain something out of it.
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