I suppose I’m just hoping to see a sense of community and some basic humanity. I hope that’s not controversial. Everyone is active when it’s too late, when it’s time to virtue signal, after a crime has already been committed, when a woman reveals she’d been abused all along. See Britney Spears. See Harvey Weinstein’s victims.
There’s no sense of community, basic care toward a fellow human being, or any sense of belonging because we’re more connected to our gadgets than our neighbors, much less anyone else in the wider community. So when a viral story shows up on our gadgets, everyone is suddenly available and ready to march. But intervening beforehand because of shared humanity and sense of community, especially in such a well-connected world? Umm, less appealing. We’re well versed with indifference now.