| rdfs:comment | - Though Moral Panic has probably existed since the emergence of the species, Homo Sapiens, one of the earliest recorded case of the mental disorder occurred several hundred years ago during the Bubonic Plague; this case was also one of the worst: millions of people had the syndrome, and the social institutions in power at the time, such as the Roman Catholic Church, fueled Moral Panic's spread, allowing it to reach all of the European continent. Countless groups, religions, and species were accused of spreading the Bubonic Plague (which was merely a somewhat fatal disease used to supply Moral Panic's growth), and many innocent Jewish believers, "lepers", and rodents were slaughtered all in the name of "purging" the world of the Plague. Eventually, the mass hysteria ceased after most of the
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| abstract | - Though Moral Panic has probably existed since the emergence of the species, Homo Sapiens, one of the earliest recorded case of the mental disorder occurred several hundred years ago during the Bubonic Plague; this case was also one of the worst: millions of people had the syndrome, and the social institutions in power at the time, such as the Roman Catholic Church, fueled Moral Panic's spread, allowing it to reach all of the European continent. Countless groups, religions, and species were accused of spreading the Bubonic Plague (which was merely a somewhat fatal disease used to supply Moral Panic's growth), and many innocent Jewish believers, "lepers", and rodents were slaughtered all in the name of "purging" the world of the Plague. Eventually, the mass hysteria ceased after most of the victims of Moral Panic died, succumbing to their irrational behavior, and the strange, possibly related pustules on their bodies. Another more recent case of Moral Panic occurred in the 1950's through the 1980's, when several Americans, with no previous exposure to the concept of Communism, began accusing the form of government of being "evil", "ungodly", and "unamerican"; before, most American's reception of Communism was somewhat negative, due to it being inefficient and mildly totalitarian at times, but not irrational. This event signaled a turning point in which sufferers of Moral Panic stopped having unwarranted hatred of people, or other tangible objects, but of concepts and ideas. The switch from tangible focuses of hate to intangible focuses of hate would only worsen cases of Moral Panic: at least if you have an irrational fear of physicians, (though difficult) you could annihilate every single physician in existence, but, no matter how much you try, you cannot shoot Gay Marriage in the face, or stab Communism in the liver.
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