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Someone caught up in a crowd's violence, acting in ways they might not choose alone.
means Someone taking part in a riot — swept up in collective violence or disorder, often losing their individual judgment to the mob's momentum.
from Traces back to Old French 'rioter,' meaning to quarrel or make a row, itself from 'riote' (dispute, noisy behavior) — a word whose deeper roots are murky, possibly tangled up with 'riot' as general unruliness before it narrowed toward mob violence. The crowd came first in the word's life, same as in the word's meaning.
- legal line
- usually just failure to disperse on time
- anonymity effect
- groups make people act less like themselves
- media math
- one broken window outshoots a thousand peaceful signs