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Why would you not believe that? Bystanders allow heinous things to happen all the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Richmond_High_School_gang_rape https:

• oh_sigh 10y ago
  The question is whether the bystander effect really happened or not. I'd like to ask all the people that claim that he raped a random person in front of a group of people: How do you feel about your own involvement in it? Do you feel any guilt at all for letting this guy just rape someone right in front of you? Also, with your example, the power differential is drastically different. If you have 7-8 people, you can easily coerce a slightly larger crowd to not do anything under threat of violence. If you have one guy raping someone and 20 people standing around, that is completely different from 1 guy raping, 6-7 threatening people, and 20 watching.