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COMMENTS:
There's a paragraph missing from the old man story: He felt because a speeding car that past by him made him lose his balance. Some people crossed the street looking at the man but no one offered any help. Same thing for the drivers. When two men finally helped him (they came from the other side of the street) all the others insulted the speeding driver...
Voted : Comment
There is a very well documented phenomenon called "diffusion of responsibility", which is most relevant in situations where helping someone would not place ones life or safety in danger. Basically it is the assumption that someone else will help the person in need of it. Unfortunately, when everyone is thinking this it's not difficult to see how it can be problematic.
There is the case of Kitty Genovese, a young woman who was stabbed to death walking from her car to her apartment at night (in 1964). In her long struggle (it was actually a series of stabbings which occurred during the course of 32 minutes) and screams for help, it became known that there were 38 witnesses in the apartment complex who were aware that a woman was being brutally attacked. She was screaming for her life. The number of people who called the police? NONE. That's 0/38. The first call came some minutes after the final stabbing, when her attacker was through raping her and fled.
Here's a particularly salient section of an article about the murder:
"Samuel Koshkin witnessed the attack from the window of the apartment he lived in with his wife. 'I saw a man hurry to a car under my window,' he said later. 'He left and came back five minutes later and was looking around the area.' Mr. Koshkin wanted to call the police, but Mrs. Koshkin thought otherwise. 'I didn’t let him,' she later said to the press. 'I told him there must have been 30 calls already.'"
^ I'm building a spaceship and moving to Mars. Nothing that people do surprises me anymore. Adios dumbasses.
Voted : Comment
Sometimes people just make really lame excuses for inaction to fool themselves into believing that they're good people, the above case is a perfect example. They were supposedly worried about tying up the phone lines calling for help, if someone's already calling, it's YOU who won't be able to get through, not the person who's already calling! Dumbasses. Sometimes though, there is a legitimate element of danger, and it would take an unsual amount of courage to endanger one's own life to try to save another that might not even be saveable.
Voted : Indifference
Responsibility gets spread around, and everyone wants to let someone else go through the trouble of doing something.
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