[Skybird]

a welldocumented, long since known sociopsychological phenomenon. Every student has some historic famous examples in his book for the sociopsychological courses. the more people gather and watch or do other things, the smaller the chances become that somebody will help or at least call the police. People got killed in big houses, yelling for help, with many and dozens of witnesses hearing it - and nobody doing anything, some even watching. Group dynamics, and the reverse correlation between group size and a.) courage and b.) intelligence. And I mean that not as tough words, but I mean that seruous. The bigger a crows the less cpurgae and the less intelligence I expect to see. Or as bonhoeffer has marked it in so few very strong and precise words: huge crowds tend to take over thinking from the individual inside of them, and replace this thinking with paroles only. what has changed to witnesses watching our listening assassination without helping is that today our society is more used to voyeurism, reality-TV and other stuff like that that helps to prevent solidarity and taking responsibility. Such motivations get redirected or better: reversed, expecting the victim on a subcontiouss level to entertain the observer. Also, the borderline between reality and fiction becokmes permeable these days, and role-models from TV series including their set of goals and cravings, moals and expectations towards what life has to goive me in order to make me feel alive mess it up even more (TV crap by far is not so aharmless as people think, becasue it nevertheless does its effects to human minds, to some more, to others less). That all this does not help to break the already existing sociological phenomenon of witnesses' inactivity, is clear.