When playing Witch Mafia on Friday, the objective of the game is to kill the Black Man, but instead we ended up killing nearly all of our townspeople. Like the Puritans, we came up with faulty and stretched reasons for why one of the townspeople was guilty, simply because we needed to kill someone, yet did not have any real evidence for doing so. Some of the people in the class did not feel one way or another about a person, and their votes were cast as swing votes. The swing votes were mostly determined by who had the most elaborate and elongated analogy. Sometimes the analogies made sense, but when the person was expressing their idea in a very intense way, it was easy for others to succumb to that idea instead of going with their better
