Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171201215836/@comment-2600:1017:B121:51DD:F824:77DC:984C:86C0-20171205161353

That seemed like classic bystander effect to me. The more people are around to see someone in trouble, the more the average person expects someone else to help the person in need. Was kind of disconcerting that they hadn't been trained out of that yet given their chosen career field

More worrying to me is that it echoes some eff-up political thinking I've seen in the real world this past year. Mainly, the idea that "If your not part of the solution, then your part of the problem." I actually saw a news report about how someone tried to claim that Taylor Swift's not endorsing anyone in the 2016 US election was proof that she was a member of the alt-right.

I've grown extremely tired and wary of this mentality that demands anyone who isn't willing to die for your cause is an enemy. It just pushes everyone either further away or towards more extremist thinking.

-Defcon Deceiver