Quote from RCG Trader:
State your thesis, and I will state mine.
Not so. Fear applies to both scenarios, whether justified or not. If you interfere in an ongoing fight, you don't know how either the players or the onlookers will respond. You may get more than you anticipated. That's not to say that you shouldn't have necessarily stepped in, but you should be aware of the very fluid dynamics of the situation. I suspect that most of the onlookers didn't want to bite off more than they thought they could chew. And so, they tried to remain invisible. Fear is the underlying. Few people are truly indifferent to such an upset. Perhaps you were speaking for yourself.Quote from Max E. Pad:
Well for one thing the people who didnt stop Stalin or Hitler, didnt do anything to stop it, not as much because they were indifferent but because they feared for their own lives.
What you see happening today like this bus incident, is not anyone fearing for their life, it is just complete indifference to violence that is happening right infront of their faces, that they could very easily stop. None of those guys on that bus (unless they are pussies) should have been scared to get in the middle of a couple of girls fighting, the only guy who was involved, was obviously not trying to get into a fight, so they had no reason to fear him.
Quote from Brass:
Not so. Fear applies to both scenarios, whether justified or not. If you interfere in an ongoing fight, you don't know how either the players or the onlookers will respond. You may get more than you anticipated. That's not to say that you shouldn't have necessarily stepped in, but you should be aware of the very fluid dynamics of the situation. I suspect that most of the onlookers didn't want to bite off more than they thought they could chew. And so, I think fear is the underlying.