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Originally Posted by peter12
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.
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A guy was walking his dog past the scene and said he had no idea what was happening. Looked to him like a group of kids just messing around. He went on to say that if he had any idea of what was going on, he would have been over there in a second. So is society saved?