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I don't think these boys failed to help out of any ideology or logical reasoning. I think these boys failed to help because they are severely lacking in that which makes a person a decent person.

What makes a person "decent" can be subjective. What I was alluding to was the attitudes/beliefs they have (quite clearly) internalised that a person's life isn't worth saving.

There are a few occasions where their behavior would not be viewed negatively by the normative society in which the person exists, in the human world.

1. A society with a class system which this man has transgressed. For example, if he were a lower caste individual in some rural parts of India, who did something a higher caste individual took offense to, such as draw water from the village well reserved for higher caste individuals.

2. He was an enemy from an opposing group of people, or viewed as an enemy from an opposing group of people, who ended up on the hands of his adversaries.

3. He was a criminal who had done something considered particularly heinous.

These are the instances I can think of in which a human society would condone such a thing.

I think you will find though, that there isn't really a human society which would condone the actions of these boys in this situation.

Yes this is called moral relativity


On needn't travel to a resource poor nation to witness this. In the USA any excuse was made to lynch young men (and even boys and women) for "fabricated" transgressions which attracted thousands of families to watch the spectacle, the point was that lynching innocent black folk was "normative behavior" till the early 1960s


extrajudicial killing during warfare - check


wife killing abusive husband, father killing pedophile who abused his child - check