"Calling the now more than $450,000 fund raised for Klein “way beyond any typical vacation and way beyond any proportional response to the hurt Klein suffered”, Brad Hirschfield at The Washington Post’s For God’s Sake blog noted that both the original attack and the response are exemplar of mob rule: “While there is obviously no moral equivalence between the bullies and the donors to the fund established on Klein’s behalf, both reflect the fact that people like to join with others, and things which they might not otherwise do alone, for good or for bad, suddenly make great sense when done in community.” People are social animals, whose sense of right and wrong is determined by context..."

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Brad Hirschfield mentioned in the Periscope Post