Do you ever wonder if the people who participated in the Salem Witch Trials really thought they were doing what was right to protect themselves and their families? Suggestion is such a powerful tool. How do you know when you are doing the right thing and have not just been convinced you are doing the right thing by someone else? How do you know if you were actually wronged or if you are just jumping on a band wagon because everyone else is already up there? Perhaps McCarthy really did thing everyone was a communist. So in his mind he was doing the right thing. And maybe all the people who went along with it were convinced they were also doing the right thing.

Perspective is such an odd thing.

"Only a part of what is percieved comes through the senses from the object; the remainder always comes from within."