Reply #11: It is curious..

[Fumesucker]

"Curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare". -Mark Twain

It wasn't physical courage that was lacking, it was moral courage, think about the Milgram experiment and the fact that a large majority of people will torture someone to death if they are told to do so by an authority figure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

Sandusky was an authority figure, if that had been some random stranger doing the same act I suspect the GA would almost certainly have acted quite differently.

We are programmed from birth to respect authority figures, it's hard to override that training when faced with an authority figure doing something abhorrent.