re: #120 iossarian

If you extrapolate from reading blog comments, the world is full of people (on both sides) who would gleefully leap into action, heroic and purposeful, at the slightest hint of trouble.

Yet, the real world time and time again shows us that people let bad stuff happen and don’t try particularly hard to stop it.

These two facts can only be reconciled in one of two ways:

a) none of the internet commenters are ever in the vicinity when bad things happen

b) the internet commenters are not, in fact, any more likely to intervene than the average citizen (which is to say, not very likely at all)

I have been in the vicinity when something wrong happened.
I do indeed make myself heard or felt.
That some of you here seem to prefer to analyze it, rather than jump in - speaks volumes. To me.