Collective Action for what?

Whenever this word collective action comes, mostly we refer to the positives of coming together for achievemnet of some common goal. While the pereception of the definition still holds, it becomes all the more important to see whether the goal is rational for the collective and not harmful for those who are out of it. An example is riot, where only a small number of people are directly involved to say affected by what had happened, but then the feelings of others are also excited to take leverage of the large number. many of those participating dont even know what the fight is all about.

A cartoon appeared in a daily that said, Though we are participating in the riot, for the reason we will have to check the newspaper headlines tomorrow.

Another aspect of collective action is religious clash and this area is such that those involved justify it but for most others it remains a futile action taken to disrupt normalcy and gain power.