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Originally posted by YoYo
The guy and the bystanders should all rot in jail.
The bystander effect is honestly one of my biggest fears. useless ******.
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while i do agree that the whole bystander effect thing is retarded and one of the flaws of the human mentality, i think saying all the bystanders should 'rot in jail' is jumping to conclusions. when you're stood there on a seemingly normal day waiting for the subway and all of a sudden out of nowhere you're confronted with the possibility that someone nearby could die in a matter of seconds you're bound to struggle to act rationally cos you'd be under ridiculous pressure. all the people waving their hands and their bags etc obviously aren't doing much to help the poor guy, but to 99.9% of people waving your hands is the first thing you'd do when you want to attract someones attention soooo..
it's a ****ed up situation but if we were in the shoes of the bystanders almost all of us would likely do something similar. that's the harsh truth.