The Salem Witch Trials: A Necessary Evil

It all starts with Abigail williams dancing in the forest naked. She then got caught d with her and the other girls having fun, the following day when the returned she was confronted. Abigail knowing she would be punished lied and cried wolf. In this case it was witchcraft. She plead the devil consumed her soul along with the other girls. When put into a position of not wanting to get in trouble people will do un rational things. Another incident was the Mccarthy trials. Innocent people accused of communism. This was almost the same to salem witch trials. When people are vulnerable and put at a height of power people will resort to irrational ideals. Like criticizing other of witchcraft or communism.
After these incidents when will people learn from history accusing others without proof is a flawed way of thinking. I believe there is good in people but only through force and vulnerability is the evil pushed out. In all these cases it was a bias of opinion put towards a group of people or a person in general.
Things such as stealing were punishable by whipping, and i'm not referring to the crazy dance move kids do these days. But their court of law was overall based on their of religion and who was in charge. So with all this in mind when Abigail committed her crime of dancing in the woods and drinking blood she knew things would not go well for her. But of course rather than taking actions and admitting to her crimes she played it off as witchcraft. And as a puritan a harc core christian this is like a bomb threat or even the recent clown sighting epidemic. So them as a person would have a natural fear of anything of that nature. With a small community like Salem things spread fast of what was going on. Also like modern day when something happens and you're not the first to speak about it, people will jump to conclusions and have their imagination take