Friday, October 9, 2015
Bystander
Why do people find it so hard to stand up for other people when they know that something bad is happening? One scenario that really bugs me is the woman who was murdered in the street and forty people had the choice to help her or not, and all forty decided not to. I had heard of this scenario previous to watching the documentary, but it continues to bewilder me that not just one person, but forty, could hear a woman outside of their homes be stabbed to death, and not a single person even called 911. There was that one man, who in between attacks yelled out his window to ask what was going on, but that proved to not be very helpful. What causes people to not help others? Is it just the fact that they don't want to involve themselves, or that they don't feel a personal responsibility to help out, or is it that people are waiting for others to do it for them? If I was in that scenario, I would hope that at least one out of forty people would call 911 for me..
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I don't think that those people purposely chose not to help. I think that because there were so many people that witnessed what happened then there was the assumption that someone had already called the police. We like to believe that someone will always do the right thing so we don't have too which is why some if not most wait for someone else to react.
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