You need to know that young men in groups can be pressured by peer pressure to do just about anything. What happens is that one guy does something wrong. Knowing he is guilty alone, he is going to call other guys, chicken, coward, pussies, babies — anything to make the other guys afraid of their own status in the group. The pressure that brings to bear on the psyche of the guy who doesn’t want to do the wrong thing, is often enough to get him to join the crowd.
Add in “mob mentality” where “everybody does it”, and it is not at all hard for me to understand how men will go from being onlookers to being coerced participants. I’m not obsolving them of guilt. They are guilty as hell. I’m just telling you how the guys who wouldn’t normally do the wrong thing will be coerced into joing the guys who do the wrong thing first.
There is a reason I was so unpopular in high school. I did my own thing and I did not submit to any preer pressure. So I didn’t join the pack mentality and of course I was always left out and teased.
Young people are no longer given any values that will make them feel they have the individual strength or even the right not to go along with the group.
I watched part of this disgusting video and heard all the other boys in the background snickering and urging him on, so clearly this is perfectly acceptable in modern America. (I also think they were probably stoned, judging from their speech, something which is only going to happen more and more now that pot is essentially legal for anyone at any age.)
This was a very depressing view into the minds of the next generation.