Unfortunately, these voluntary acts require more courage and or concern than the majority of spectators care to muster for innocent victims they perceive to be unworthy of a cause. Sadly, the mental illness of the attackers is perpetuated by the social illness of the spectators, and in cases where you might later here as a justification for the attack, ‘the way they behave, they ask for it’, it’s the inverse. Perhaps witnesses might respond more valiantly if they were able to envision in the face of the assault victim someone they loved, rather than merely returning to their homes plagued with the memory of the assault and their own guilt for not having done something, anything, to help.