Ethics in Rubbernecking

I had never heard the term “rubbernecking” until I read this article last weekend. It’s all kinds of awful. I don’t know what would possess someone to take a picture in front of something tragic, then post it with witty and joyous taglines and hashtags.  

Of all the actions this latest group of people posing for a selfie could have taken, taking a selfie is not the action I would have assumed to be their first priority. Like many others, this group of people apologized for their actions later, after being told how reprehensible their actions there were. Interesting that it took a large number of people to point out their unethical decision for them to realize the depth of their mistake.  

Has the "selfie" phenomenon de-sensitized our culture?