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Thursday Open Thread: Collective Insanity Edition

Today, in 1692, Bridget Bishop was the first woman executed as a result of the Salem Witch Trials. Also, in 1793, the Jacobins took control of the French Revolution and imposed one of the first ‘revolutionary dictatorships.’ Good reminders that laws are designed to temper the passions of the masses.

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