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   NoFearPup said, 28 days ago

   It’s called dehumanization.

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   oldlegodad said, 28 days ago

   How many cell phone pics were taken?

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   NoFearPup said, 28 days ago

   How many of the young”men” were de-sensitized by society’s laissez-faire approach to pornography?

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   dtroutma said, 28 days ago

   Sadly, this stuff has been going on for a long, long, time. Our willingness to go to war, is NOT matched by the society at large to step in and step forward at home. When some DO it makes news, but unfortunately today, guns, and violence unchecked, have made it much riskier than just a few years ago. High capacity magazines in weapons in the hands of street punks have even taken away the “safety in numbers” theorem.

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   Ken Warren said, 28 days ago

   Why do they keep doing this to Breen, again two cartoons before we have time to comment on one.

   Both cartoons are worth commenting on, but this incident is so bad and sad I can’t think of thing to say except: I HOPE THESE PEOPLE GO TO HELL!

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   akibono said, 28 days ago

   Puppy, it’s laisser-faire. Sick society.

   What will these young people become when they grow up?

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   motivemagus said, 28 days ago

   See The Unresponsive Bystander: Why Doesn’t He Help? by Bibb Latané, John M. Darley. The phenomenon is known as the “diffusion of responsibility;” in essence, everyone thinks someone else will (or should) respond. Also known as “the bystander effect.” Latané and Darley were trying to explain the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese, who screamed for 30 minutes, heard by 40 neighbors.
   The way to counter it is to choose to act regardless of everyone else. I’ve never forgotten that, and have even found myself in a situation (nothing so dramatic) where I did act while others stood around.

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   big G 3469 said, 28 days ago

   This reminded me about a incident that happened here a few years back about a group of gang banging punks who gang raped a teenage girl & there was one person who was “cheering” on the gang banging rapists…The Mother of one of the gang members!! Luckly the punks & the gangbanger’s mom were all arrested & are now serving time in Prison for thier crimes!

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   omQ R said, 27 days ago

   In London this has been happening for some time, too. It is not rare. :-(
   ”In 2008 alone, (police) received reports of 85 gang rapes”.

   An earlier article from the Guardian, 2004 referencing France experiencing it too.

   Motive, I don’t know the details of the case being referenced in this ‘toon, but how many were actually just bystanders who did not intervene or were the bystanders just those who did not actively participate in the rape but part of the gang?
   Interesting to discover the term “diffusion of responsibility”.
   I’ve also reacted to a situation when no-one else stepped in (again, nothing as dramatic as rape) but it was because I had passed up two other situations in the past where I wasn’t sure if I should. Afterwards I was determined that should a new situation possibly warrant me intervening I would, screw the embarrassment if it wasn’t an emergency.

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    cabrobst said, 27 days ago

    And our parents thought our generation was bad.

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    motivemagus said, 27 days ago

    Some of the problem was that the cops who were there didn’t do their job, and instead were hanging around in a group.

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    cdward said, 27 days ago

    cabrobst, every generation has its bad, and most have delivered at least this bad from time to time. Not a generational thing - it’s a human thing.

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    NoFearPup said, 27 days ago

    ^Like Sodom and Gomorrah…

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    DrCanuck said, 27 days ago

    Puppy, ol’ poop; that’s just a legend. Try reality.

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    NoFearPup said, 27 days ago

    ^You hope. Jesus is the hope for Christians…but unbelievers hope there is no God…What does that tell you?
    (Unbelievers have no hope. Just in case you couldn’t figure that one out, Doctor.)

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    Anthony 2816 said, 27 days ago

    Yeah, when I want to know what unbelievers think, I’m going to ask Puppy.

    After all, there are thousands of gods she doesn’t believe in.

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    ahab said, 26 days ago

    The toxic animals. Disgusting primates.We need Serpico on the case.

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    HOWGOZIT said, 25 days ago

    Just ask yourself 28!

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    Anthony 2816 said, 25 days ago

    Or Puppy could ask me, instead of making blind assumptions.

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    fennec said, 25 days ago

    Anyone interested in knowing the facts can look in the Chronicle:
    www.sfgate.com/
    The rest of you (eg., ^) can make up the details as they fit your preconceived notions.

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    Anthony 2816 said, 25 days ago

    And in response to Fennec, from Striper/Stan comes a stony, yet predictable, silence.

    Facts hurt, don’t they, Striper?