This story is sadly 100% believable. The emotional disconnection you see in many big US cities is abhorrent.

Security in the US is a mess. Anyone who lived in the US is aware that due to poor security, residents are afraid of going out at night in some regions of the US. The country has a big problem with its own social governance. Philadelphia, in particular, is a chaotic, underdeveloped and ethnically uncoordinated city, with the crime rates among the highest of all US cities.

Raping a woman on a train in full view of other passengers is a crime in any civilized country. It should be spurned. However, other passengers at the scene didn’t stop the rapist or call the police; instead, they filmed the brutal crime. This shows that the pursuit of individualism in American society has become far beyond what we can understand.

Individualism upheld by American values can, under some circumstances, stimulate innovation. But in this Philadelphia case, such values have gone out of hand. For the sake of their own comfort, safety or private interests, some Americans have lost basic human ethics and social responsibility. It’s a sign that American values are in crisis.