NathansMommy wrote:
Oh, I hope he is ok. I remember watching Nill Nye the Science Guy in school when I was growing up. He's awesome.
In reference to people Tweeting rather than helping, it's completely backwards, yet totally believeable. I was watching the local news the other day and there was a story about a 60-something year old lady who was beaten up by four teenaged boys and had her purse stolen in a parking lot. they had surveilence footage. This poor lady is going to put her groceries away, a car pulls up and a guy jumps out and tries to grab her purse. The woman was fighting back and the guy hit her several times and dragged her a few feet with the car before she let go. You can see a lot of other people in the parking lot watchign this all happen. Perhaps they were too scared of becoming victims themselves which may be why no one went running to help. BUT after these jerks drove off, the woman was on her hands and knees, disoriented. I see these one guy on the video walking up to her really quickly. I thought he was going to help her up, but he literally walked right in front of her and continued to the stores entrance. The other people in the parking lot didn't help her either. Just went about their day. It's sad.
...not the same as Tweeting, but another example of the world we live in. If someone needs help, you don't just stand around or grab your mobil device to start recording video or texting away. Not good karma, people.
Anywho, hope all is well with Mr Nye.
Diffusion of responsibility it sounds like, when people expect someone else to help and everyone ends up waiting for someone else to step in.
Also, if it's in an inner city area where there's more people around less people help out. I was watching a documentary made by Desmond Morris and for an experiment he got a man to lie on the floor like he'd collapsed in the middle of the city, and for aaaaaaaages people just walked past like he wasn't there. Then the same man lay down in the middle of a smallish village, he had help nearly straight away.
It's not really a result of modern times or whatever, because that documentary is from 1994 and there was no twitter or camera phones then. And another example of diffusion of responsibility was in the 1940s a woman got stabbed repeatedly by a man and loads of people in the flats surrounding them did nothing about it despite knowing what was happening. I don't blame twitter at all.
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18 Nov 2010, 1:38 pm
