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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with not demonizing the people who did not help. Certainly, they didn't think to themselves "clearly someone is being murdered, who gives a F?" Being stupid, or just acting stupidly in the moment is not a crime, nor evil. But, I think it is indicative of the fact that, as a society, many of us second-guess ourselves too much when we should take action, and the "better safe than sorry" instinct can be paralyzed when it is most important. I am sure that the Apple store employees are aware they could have saved a life, but they (and we) are only humans and we humans are all deeply flawed. Again, there are many, many reasons to act, and the biggest reason not to act is uncertainty. There should be more awareness, as we bring up our children, to ALWAYS ACT. We talk about how children need to be expressly taught not to be racist, we overthink how much we're praising our children, etc, and while it goes without saying that we should teach our children to watch out for one another, how to intervene safely, etc, it's obviously that something is not working.

I cannot imagine anyone not acting in that situation, as I heard it described to me, and I have to say that I also had a visceral response that was highly unfavorable to those employees, but I wasn't there.

I made the mistake of looking at those photos. The most heartbreaking one was of Jayna's parents going into the court. It makes you contemplate life. At some point, life goes on, the sun comes up and goes down, and you're without your daughter. The dad was carrying a starbucks coffee and I was thinking "at least he still enjoys coffee." I hope the parents find other things in life they can enjoy again, and that somehow, everyone connected to this terrible tragedy can find peace. [/quote]

Totally agree. And, there is no point in demonizing these two. I absolutely think I would have called -and I've intervened in a domestic violence situation previously- but there was no way they knew someone was being brutally murdered. And, there is plenty of psychology out there about how people become paralyzed or act in strange ways in these situations. Finally, as someone said, this is not a "Gen Y" problem. The Kitty Genovese story was decades ago.

And, those two have a terrible punishment: they have to live with themselves and know that a woman died and they could have possibly done something to stop it but did not. Whether intentionally or not, I'd have a hard time living with myself.

The whole situation is sad, awful, terrible . . . and solely on the shoulders of Brittany Norwood.[/quote]

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