re: #135 reine.de.tout

2) There are some folks here just fine with that. That is very upsetting to me.

I really don’t see anyone, not even Frank, saying they’re just fine with that, but that it’s explainable, or that it’s human nature, or that an active resitance might have actually caused a larger problem. The last part, being speculative, is just moot to me. But I don’t see anyone saying that they’re just fine with inaction. Some are being honest that they, themselves, aren’t people of action— and from everything I’ve read and studied, that’s not something to hold against people. Some people just aren’t doers— and I’ve had my moments of freezing up in crises,more than I’d like.

No one stepped up to help this lady in time to keep her from being hurt, INCLUDING the videographer, who could clearly see what was happening, and apparently didn’t even put the camera aside long enough to get someone else’s attention, who could have intervened.

Well, there were plenty of people paying attention— I don’t think attracting someone else’s attention would have necessarily done anything. And I do think documenting it is an important thing in and of itself. I do, again, think the videographer should have done more— but whether they could have done more, whether they had the psychological and physical faculties, I don’t know.

I do think everyone who stood by bears some blame for that— but nowhere near the level of import or blame that the actual assholes acting did.