Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, Lemmings are small short-tailed furry-footed rodents found in sub-arctic areas, notable for recurrent desperate and mindless mass migrations. Once a mass migration has been triggered, the lemmings begin swarming over boulders, around trees, over cliffs (to their death), and will ultimately encounter a body of water they cannot swim across which leads to their mass drownings. There is no evidence that lemmings are suicidal; instead, their survival instinct overrules all other considerations. Lemmings are the locusts of mammals, and as they swarm, they will strip a habitat bare.
In humans, lemming-like behavior which leads to ultimate self-destruction can be seen in times of fear and panic. Riots and Lynch Mobs are examples of humans abandoning any reasoning, any logic, and any common sense. Facts and reality cannot penetrate the behavior of humans when they are in the throes of this lemming-like panic.
