(October 16, 2021 at 1:53 pm)Ten Wrote: Or, possibly, "Surely, SOMEONE will do something. ...Else, someone else will do something."
As someone who's read a lot in psychology, this is the most likely explanation for how people (particularly in a crowd) can just sit by and do nothing when they know someone near them is getting raped. If one person watches such a crime in progress, they're more likely to do something. Every bystander to a crime, each individual person is going to think "surely, someone else's going to do something." I can once remember taking a psych course and the teacher actually mentioned a strategy some people used to rectify this problem: singling out someone specific in the crowd asking them to do something.
Also, one thing I should mention: I recently watched Irreversible and there's a scene where Monica Bellucci gets raped. It's done in a single take that's over 13-and-a-half minutes long, and we see everything from her walking home to her stumbling on La Tenia raping another woman, and deciding to not only rape her, but beat her into a coma, and the single take style makes it feel like you're actually witnessing it. And, as a bonus, there's actually someone in the background who witnesses it and just walks away as soon as he figured out what was happening. And given that the later/earlier (it's structured Memento-style) scenes show he has some stupefyingly good luck when someone actually does take action against him, not to mention how difficult it is to sexual assault, it makes a depressing amount of sense.
I hope to Hell this is the closest I ever come to seeing such a scenario in real life.
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