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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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Not even high school, but junior high is not a measure of society. Does anyone here feel like real life is much like junior high? Do you still pick on the nerd in the office? Or if you are the nerd in the office, do you often get picked on by the cool people you work with?
As to my final comment that's my point... intervene and they do one of two things; fight back or scatter. Because they were so young, fighting back is unlikely (unless they're a gang), which leaves scattering. Who knows what happens at that point.
And you're wrong. Someone did intervene and called the police to deal with the situation. Honestly, that's what I would have done in order to ensure that justice is served to ALL who took part in this crime. It wouldn't be out of a sense of nihilism...
I have read/heard the accounts of three adults who witnessed the event. Two were females and one was a father with his young daughter out for a walk. None of these people I expect to interfere except call the police. Yes the field is surrounded but that doesn't mean there were people in every house or that people in every house heard or saw what happened.