2. In the story "The Lottery" the public stoning is accepted by the members of the town because everyone does it and they don't want to be the only one not participating. Even in everyday life people won’t step in and do the right thing because there intimidated by all the other people participating. If someone is bullying another kid at school most people feel intimidated by the kids bullying and won’t help the person being bothered.
3. The two stories "The Lottery" and "The Perils of Indifference" have a lot of similarities how people fall for peer pressure instead of doing there own thing. People feel they can’t stand up for the right thing, when people doing the wrong or bad thing will just put them down. In the public stoning in The Lottery the towns people didn’t stand up and say no but participated because everyone else was. Most people don’t want to feel singled out in a crowd so they go against there better judgments and participate. Also people don't want to break tradition, and by not helping in the public stoning they would have been looked upon as not helping the town get a good harvest. No one wants to make a situation worse and by doing what everyone else does it seems like your doing the right thing when your not.
