That is a fine example of unthinking “herd behavior”, and the deadly consequences that it so often brings. That’s what I think of when I watch the news and read the papers, young people ruining their lives by following the “Judas goat” in their little group. Before you know it they are standing in front of a Judge and looking at serious prison or jail time. That’s if they are lucky, sometimes it doesn’t get that far because someone gets killed along the way. It could be a robbery, a car chase, a gun pulled on an officer, and in the blink of an eye, their life is over. Others are left to wonder why this happened to them. The answer is “herd behavior.”
Pick your friends wisely, do they try to encourage you, help you stay out of trouble, or is there a “Judas goat” among them that you will follow until it’s too late?
- Herd behavior leads to destruction, RaymondvilleChronicleNews.com, March 28, 2017.
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Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily.com.cn. He has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.
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