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Re:When six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months (2020) by Andrex on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:50PM (#27376719)
> There were lots of cases where they turned on each other, and lots of cases where they did not.

The fact that it's a coin flip is the key aspect of the message Golding wanted to impart. It's chilling, and unsurprising, that reality bears it out.

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Re:When six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months (2020) by bryanrasmussen on Thursday June 03, 2021 @02:02AM (#27377712)
The coin flip in the book is that they had two potential leaders, one of the responsible and the other one pretty sociopathic but charismatic - the nascent society followed the sociopathic, charismatic one.

At any rate there were quite a few more kids than 6 in the book, so pointing at this incident and saying 'see, it would work out' is just silly.

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Re:When six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months (2020) by grecy on Thursday June 03, 2021 @09:29AM (#27380997)
... sounds a lot like many democracies choosing a sociopathic but charismatic leader.
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