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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Not important, Yin

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

But she's answering your question, socks. Fear of retaliation.

However, the article said he had his home address down as a homeless shelter iirc. If that's true, perhaps people didn't help because they just didn't give a shit.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Fear of retaliation.

Yes - that part I agreed is important, here.

My response to the remaining portion of that answer is what seems to have triggered this back and forth regarding hostility. I argue that there are potential additional ways of intervening, even if that means finding a cop or additional help, or yelling, or whatever, rather than video a rape of an unconscious person.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I can think of an excellent way that it could have been resolved, but I'll get the fly swatter for advocating v-olen-e

Edit: I didn't know that adding asterisks in place of random letters just makes it look spelled incorrectly and italic.