I was actually pretty disappointed by the depth of this article. I appreciated its honesty, and that finally, after all the recent scandals and moral dilemmas in the news, someone addressed the idea that bystanders don't always report what they should. The author asks the reader to be honest with himself and consider a situation in which he witnesses something obviously wrong or immoral. Can everyone say realistically that they would report it? No, of course not.
Studies about how the brain works always really interest me, so I was hoping for (and expecting) some sort of study of why people are so disinclined to rat someone out. Obviously it is something to do with people being social animals, and tending to follow the crowd. But why do we fail to rebel even when the crowd is wrong?
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