Last night me and 2 of my neighbors went down the street together to 7-11 and watched a lady throw her full fountain drink at the cashier’s head while screaming, and then her probable boyfriend came in to further threaten the guy and rough him up. 

No one intervened and no police were called because by now there is implicit knowledge nothing will happen between long 911 wait times, understaffed police, and cite + release policies

I romanticize my past history in other cities but people tell me to stop — they are all Just Like This now or so I am told

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The Bystander effect. Everyone can fall victim to it. Especially if it’s something that is very far from what we experience most often. 

 A mutant wolf-human hybrid caused by nuclear fallout, solar flares, Aztec prophecies, Persian poetry, Irish moonshine-blood, and American pharmacology.

That is often part of it. But it can happen without thought. If we aren’t used to confrontation, or view the situation as something we’d only make worse, our fight or flight instinct just stalls out. No thought. No movement. Only later, thinking back do people question themselves on this, if they ever do. 

The fact that you know why you didn’t means you’re more self aware than a lot of people. It seems to be worst, when the situation is truly awful. 

But, I’m not a psychologist. One of those could explain this phenomenon better. 😀

In this case i did not help not because i assumed someone else would but because i felt it too dangerous to