Guess we all have our moral compass pointing in opposite directions. I guess I have always believed that I would not stand by while someone was being beaten to death......Hopefully nothing happens to me around some of you guys... then again you would be a good witness, that is unless you don't want to talk because you worried that someone may not like you after you were done.
Please describe what you would have done, then. Describe the actions you would have taken in this case that would have saved the day. Again, all I see here is one side saying, "here is why intervening would have been terribly risky"
And another side saying "Y'all are cowards, but I'm a hero. I would have gone in and.......*crickets*."
Lots of posturing coming from one side, but no explanations or good strategies.
BTW, if I were being beaten in the middle of a large mob and made it through, I wouldn't blame anybody who didn't singularly come to my aid.
I don't expect, nor do I want innocent people to commit near suicidal actions on my behalf. Maybe you do.
I don't hear anyone here saying "never intervene". I do see people explaining how problematic it is to interject yourself into violent situations where your life wasn't previously in danger until you made the decision to voluntarily place it in danger....and how dangerous this particular situation would have been to intervene in.
History is full of anecdotes concerning people who wanted to "do something" and ended up being victim #2.
I have seen more than a few rescue attempts that were called off because of extreme risk to the rescuers, in some cases watching the person die in front of them rather than seriously risk the lives of multiple rescuers. Triage is a crappy but real concept. Sometimes it is really just a choice between 1 victim or 2.