"Can someone explain this quote in simple words: Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd"

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leozap1 · Answer

Well in the book lord of the flies the boys we're scared and began having anger an hatred towards each other ... Their fear was turning them savage ... SO they split up and would constantly try to hurt and steal from each other .. And they were not welcoming to any body who came near their so called territory or section of the Island..... Just like the insects when they are scared they become ferocious

leozap1 · Answer

I copied that from Yahoo answers because I did not know lol but it got Best answer so it should be right. :)

anonymous · Answer

in other words?......

leozap1 · Answer

In other words I looked it up and copied that word from word lol the link to the question I copied is here: http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111211054739AAyq08P