what happened today in class

Today in class we started off with an article about how a Wal Mart employee was killed by an angry mob that wanted to get in the store. We separated in different groups and spoke our feelings about what happened and how this plays into the AWOL. Afterwards we had a large group discussion about it and i dozed off for a little bit. I woke up a heated debate between two classmates. I did not know what was going on and did not care much for it because it seemed like they were arguing over something stupid. I soon find out that there was miscommunication and Andy brought up the idea that no one decided to interfere and looked at it as a way of entertainment. Personally i did not feel the need for me to interfere with the argument. I did not want to get myself involved in something that i did not know the full extent about. As for everyone else, i felt that they did not want to interfere for the same reason, they did not want to get themselves involved. As students who have experienced heated arguments with the likes of today's, we know that it will soon die down and that there is no point in interrupting because the people involved are not in the state of mind to take into account other people's opinions. When in that kind of argument, the people involved are all for themselves and will keep arguing until they are satisfied with the case that they make for themselves.