Nodder/Fixie Skidder

^True up to a point but I think there is, as with any other group, also the element of pressure within the group, people not objecting or saying what they think for fear of losing their place or being shunned and people wanting to feel included so adapting to the prevailing mores. Which includes uncritically adopting the argot; nodders being a fine example. This place is more hierarchical than it likes to admit. It's a lot like school. There are groups within groups and cliques within cliques in this Rumsfeldesque world of weirdness.
The reaction to deaths and other tragedies is not incompatible with this view; we would have to be a collective of psychopaths to react in any other way.

and i guess you're standing on the sidelines not in a group?