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The psychological term is named "bystander apathy"
Very common phenomena. Been witness to it myself a few times.
It basically states that people will assume someone else will do it. This also leads to group ignorance. People will only do things when other people are doing them also (conformity), when everyone sees everyone else doing nothing, they do nothing. Same goes the other way, remember lynchings back in the day? That's how it works, conformity. A couple people get all riled up and yell and beat people, suddenly the crowd turns into a mob.
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