Protest organizers bear felt responsibility for the safety of strangers they cannot protect.

Evidence

Mayara was in a state of panic. She had lost control of the front line, which meant that she had let the movement down. When the first attack came, and blasted the crowd into different crevices, she took shelter in the doorway of a building. In a moment of desperation, a young mother turned to her and asked Mayara to watch her young daughter before rushing into the street to try to rescue her husband. Stunned, she obliged. The little girl turned her face up to Mayara and asked, “Auntie, are we going to die?” — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 390

Categorization

• XREF: The moment-of-terror civilian vignette echoes the human texture in ‘A Midwife’s Tale’-style microhistories, and the mother-husband rescue echoes the familial dynamics in ‘A Very Minor Prophet’. — connects to: Crowds in crisis project their need for protection onto a single figure; Threat is felt on behalf of one’s membership groups, not just oneself; People delegate action to proxies partly to escape moral responsibility for harm — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 127

Broader Connections

• Crowds in crisis project their need for protection onto a single figure #expands (0.76)
• Threat is felt on behalf of one’s membership groups, not just oneself #expands (0.75)
• People delegate action to proxies partly to escape moral responsibility for harm #qualifies (0.73) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 127