In the book The Ox-Bow Incident a mob forms with one intention, to find the cattle rustlers and kill them. Since they town heard that Kinkaid had been shot, the people of Bridger’s Wells displayed no concern as to whether or not the people they were accusing were guilty. They were more concerned with not looking suspicious and following the pack mentality. Even Art points out that the mob was set out to hang a group of men for killing Kinkaid and rustling cattle, and that there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them.

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Although Art felt that there was nothing anyone could have done to stop the out of control mob, Davies knew there was. Instead of doing something about it he stood by and watched three men that he knew were innocent die, displaying the sin of omission. Davies explained to Art that he was sure that Don Martin, the Mex, and the old man, were all innocent. Even though Davies knew that Tetley had it deep within his soul to hang the innocent men, Davies knew that he could have stopped it, he says

Both of these happenings consisted of hanging people because their fellow townspeople convicted them of disobeying the laws of society. In both of these cases there was no proper evidence that any of the people hung actually disobeyed the law. Both of which could have been prevented through a trial and waiting for justice through the court system. Innocent people were hanged because of the suspicion of others, causing the people who hanged the innocent people to be the ones committing the crime against the laws of society.

In both of these two cases the tentativeness of the people who were aware of the innocence of the victims, brought them to commit sins of omission. They allowed the death of these people because they didn’t want to stand out or look suspicious. Instead of taking advantage of the fact that they knew the people were innocent and didn’t deserve to be hung they took a passive approach and let the others suffer. When both of the people or person in each case discovered they were capable of preventing a gr

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