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Notice that when pvn says "everyone", he clearly does not mean the very small percentage of people who murder, steal and rape on a personal level. I would guess this is about the same percentage of people that would flat out refuse to dial 9-1-1 for someone who is dying right in front of them. So we can dispense with the highly unlikely and outright ridiculous hypotheticals too.
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Not completely on point, but I wouldn't be so certain that people will call for help
Kitty Genovese
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This one anecdote doesn't refute anything I said.
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Well, bunk it up with the Milgram studies and you'll know that people don't really act very idealistically, they don't always act rationally, they often do what someone else tells them too and they don't always mind coercion and there is usually a coercer or too hiding out in any modestly large group of people. They're people.
And that's my beef with these debates in general - proposing that cultural structures negating AC principles may very well arise in some setting where AC is the norm, even if ACists doesn't support them, is usually just ignored.