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This and other similar news stories would be why I did not enjoy living in NYC. I know my chosen cultural zone has its own problems - I live with the effects of several of them, so you needn't remind me - but if I believed in God, I'd thank him that this is not one of them. These stories - Kitty Genovese, the Wal-Mart worker that was trampled to death - always come out of New York City or other densely-populated areas. Dehumanization, looking at other people as though they were nothing more than moving meat-sacks, is not only permitted but encouraged. I actually had a counselor there tell me that it was 'necessary' to do at some level. I told her I did not choose to live like that, and she seemed puzzled.