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Last week while visiting the Whitney Museum, in Manhattan, I made a point of it to sing as I walked amongst the exhibit. This sort of behavior is usually discouraged in museums because one normally wouldn’t care to hear another person singing while they were trying to view the artwork. It just so happened that because it was the middle of the day, on a Thursday afternoon, the museum had very few people in …

…may do just the opposite. Groups may create anonymity, though they also may persuade reason. Society makes people responsible for individual behavior, even when they are acting as a group in that consequences are only placed on individuals never a group as a whole. (For example the guy at the Giants game who was charged for throwing ice because he was singled out on the newspaper, even though many others were partaking in the activity.)