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Originally Posted by FireFly
Why does everything have to be so dramatic with you? Social collapse? Like the rest of society collapsed with it? 
It's the problem with education in today's society though, that's for sure. The western system of education creates social outcasts and people who desire above all else to be liked or feared, leading to bullying. Buddy was probably trying to be cool. Absolutely horrific, but that's probably what happened.
As for the people who think someone should have intervened... What exactly did you want them to do? Go and pull the kid off the girl? How do you think that's going to turn out? |
This is actually a good measure of social collapse. When people do not engage in the very basic measure of community solidarity, that is, the protection of the weaker members of a community, one could honestly say that there is something that the society is not doing right. This is a measure of the implicit nihilism of our society. Why did no one intervene? Because they have no higher principle than themselves. All the narcissists could do is film the situation on their cell phones for goodness sake and I guarantee that none of them was doing it with the intention of showing it to the police.
As to your final comment, rapists have a very high reward, low risk mentality. It normally does not take much to scare one off. As there was a group of children watching, the capacity for intervention was high and the risk of confrontation was fairly low.