The shared explanations for how the community functions includes "the appalling silence of good people", which encourages the growth of perverse incentives.

There was a vast screaming, a crash like mountains fallingThen darkness and an appalling silence.

But at this hour, in this appalling silence, and among all these staring windows, I am lost in terrors--oh, lost in them!

There was an appalling silence to my appeal.

The subject of bullying includes "the appalling silence of the good people".

Abruptly their movement ceased - so abruptly that the stoppage of all the ordered turmoil had the quality of appalling silence.

An appalling silence fell across the wasteland.

And they went down the broad ramp into a dense and appalling silence.

There was a single instant of appalling silence.

No living soul appears in this desert of desolation, encompassed by appalling silence.