“That’s just fundamentally wrong, and that’s a big concern in today’s world.”
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“The pandemic has highlighted that a lot of people think, ‘I’ve just got to take care of myself,’” says Matt Langdon, founder of the Hero Round Table, an organization that teaches people how to be more than bystanders. Read more: Why Everyone Is So Rude Right Now gun sales, and it’s not hard to see why more people than usual might be retreating into their own corners. Throw in rising crime in 2020 and a pandemic-fueled surge in U.S. In the last year and a half, the virus has made people more self-preserving, more isolated and more fearful of the unknown, according to Zimbardo and other experts who study the “bystander effect,” a psychological theory that people are less likely to help the more other witnesses are present. Yet, given how much the COVID-19 pandemic has deteriorated social norms, if this did happen the way authorities say it did, it’s not entirely surprising. “It’s unconscionable that no one helped,” says Philip Zimbardo, a psychologist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, echoing similar remarks made in the last few days by local police. Some reportedly pointed their phones in the direction of the unfolding assault.
Instead, in what police say is a troubling sign of the state of society, no witnesses intervened.
13, a woman was raped on a commuter train near Philadelphia-an attack that authorities say lasted several minutes and could have been stopped sooner had any of the other passengers onboard called 911.
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