A U.S. Marine was convicted of sexual assault while twenty service members watched and did nothing. The speaker argues bystanders share legal and moral responsibility for failing to intervene, and urges you to be the one person who steps in.
All right, can you be held responsible for being a bystander in a situation you could have intervened? With the US military, is it possible you could be held literally court-wise, judicial-wise, responsible for the situation? Yes or no? Yes. Absolutely. Let me give you an example. Let's just say a Marine gets charged with sexual assault, and everybody gets locked down for 6 months. By the way, has that stuff happened? Yes. All right, so in that line of work, were they usually out alone? No. No, they weren't. Were they usually with a group? Yes. How many did it take to have stopped that whole thing from happening? One. One. And people go, why are we all being locked down? Because the one made a bad mistake. That's not why you're being locked down. It's because the other 20 didn't stop the one. Honestly, that's usually what the case is. All right? So that's what we want to be, the one who intervenes. Because here's the great answer. And I almost never get this answer till after I've said it out loud in the room. But what I'm about to share with you, you can use the rest of your life. I'm gonna intervene, Mike, because it's who I am.
