No one helped man getting killed in train

[Napoléon]

But having said that, a whole crowd of people vs 1 teen with a knife? Yeah they could have done something.

Nobody disputed that.

That's one of those situations where people could have come together and collectively manhandled that guy to the floor. It would have been so easy for a couple people to quickly grab him while he was focused on his target then for someone else to grab the knife out his hand. Overall I do agree with the guy who wrote the article, I have to shake my head at a whole crowd of people on the train who stood by and did nothing when it was only a knife, not a gun, and when they had the advantage of numbers.

I'm sorry, but this is so horribly, horribly wrong.

Could they have done something? Yes. Absolutely. Should they have? Yes, they probably should. In an ideal world we'd all have it in us to be courageous and save whoever we saw in need.

However the real world isn't like that. How you, or anyone else who wasn't there can have any right to judge those people and condemn them for not acting in a situation where you yourself have literally no comprehension of how frightening it is, is despicable in my honest opinion.

We can all come out with if, buts and maybes. It could have been a totally different outcome, ofcourse it could. Sure it was only a knife. But how can you judge others for not endangering their own lives, to save someone they don't know? Can you categorically say you would do something in that situation? Like fuck can you. Would you be willing without hesitation to jump in front of a murderer holding a knife for someone you've never met? I don't think so. For that reason alone you have no right to condemn these people as cowards.

We'd all like to think we'd jump in and save someone. We could even be more confident in doing so if we had other people with us. But the cold hard reality is, that you have no idea how you'd really react in a situation like that. And shame on you and anyone else branding these innocent people as cowards.

If it had been an almost empty carriage and a whole crowd of guys who got on with knives (or worse, guns), I could get it, you're outnumbered. I just think for a whole crowd of dozens of people to stand by and collectively decide to do nothing is cowardly. Really despairing.

The numbers don't make a blind bit of difference. When you jump in front of a knife wielding maniac, you do it alone. There's no guarantee someone else would jump in to save you. In a scenario like this, shit happens fast and you have a split-second decision to make. I won't be one of the dickwads who condemns a bunch of people thrown into a god awful situation.