XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   Your Name  wrote:   
      
   >Yep, there's an article in today's newspaper about a woman who is angry   
   >because she was being assaulted and yelling for help, but everyone   
   >simply ignored her ... of course, there have also been news stories in   
   >the past where someone did go to help in similar circumstances and the   
   >intervening person got killed.   
      
   To my generation, the archetypal case was Kitty Genovese.   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_genovese   
      
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