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Originally Posted by iota
To be fair, in the long video you can hear some of the kids in the background sounding more concerned about what to do and also some critical of the boy who is laughing and joking. So it's not all the kids, but too many of them to ignore.
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I actually couldn't bring myself to listen to the video. I'm glad some were critical, but I wish someone had intervened. I guess the girl was clueless until friends of the family started finding her photo online.
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I'm just wondering if this kind of indifference and blatant disregard is fostered by feelings of distance from what you are in fact participating in. I heard one commentary that made the claim that there's a kind of disconnect, an unreality, when people are used to posting or recording anything and everything. I don't want to blame social media, but I'm trying to see what the role is.
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I don't know. I just remind myself that people have been brutalizing other people since the beginning of time. That's not new.
The mindset that says it's okay to post it online? You'd think that just self-preservation would prevent you from doing that.