Most people follow the crowd. If the crowd is faultless, or mostly decent, most of its adherents lead wholesome, blameless lives.
If the crowd degenerates into a mob, gang or cult, most of the members will continue to follow the crowd into sin and perhaps irretrievable wickedness.
There are two solutions that need to be implemented and utilized by most people most of the time.
First, most people need to redo their lives, and live as individuals first, and drop group-member loyalty and obedience to a lower level of importance in their lives. As indivduals they will follow their own consciences, so the tendency to join a wicked group doing evil deeds would be largely eliminated.
Second, these enlightened, willful, wise individuators will no longer follow the crowd without question or review of direction taken or proposed plans of action. Each such individual on each occasion will decide for herself if group tactics, good or wicked, are worth supporting or not.
These solutions would not much to reduce group wickedness in the world.
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