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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.
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.
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You are assuming the bystanders and the attacker(s) were not "together". For all we know, and if I were to hazard a guess, this could be some sort of gang bullying/revenge because the victim crossed this group in some way. Similar to the BC murder years ago.