today my oldest and bestest friend was assaulted by a crazy girl wearing a stupid belt.
it was full of people walking past until the fight broke out, they disappeared, walked the opposite direction.
one guy told my friend to 'walk away', he kept walking.
the girl's friends stood around laughing and we just stood there.
no one did anything.
some other friends were in the shop next door, they could hear the yelling.
they thought it was someone else.
they did nothing.
of all the people in the center, no one did anything.
and i'm not having a go at them, because i just stood there... i didn't do anything.
i just find it interesting.
there was a woman named kitty genovese who was murdered in 1964, she cried out for help in the carpark of her apartment. she screamed and screamed and all her neighbours heard her.
finally one guy told the murderer to leave her alone, after he'd already stabbed her twice in the back.
kitty crawled back to her apartment, where the murderer finished her off ten minutes later.
there were 38 witnesses, none of which called the police or intervened.
this same results came up when an experiment with similar factors was conducted. people just don't want to help.
so next time you're in danger... scream fire...
the belt really did have no purpose.
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have a chat to my mum, when she did her psychology unit for her uni last year she was telling me about this study that looked at people and how they will react when someone is in need of help depending on the people that are there, like if you are the only person witnessing you are more likely to help but if there is someone else there who also doesn't help you are less likely to. she know lots about it :)
i didn't know what to do, i suspect the same for you and cassie,
i just rang triple zero cause that's what the police lady told us to do if anyone attacked us. but i think had she kept attacking i would have ran into them flailing my arms :/
yeah thats what we're doing at the moment. it just scares me a little.. i'm honestly starting to lose faith in the human race :S we're all so selfish and horrible and i didn't really realise until it was on paper...
ReplyDeletei dunno.. its just weird.
i will definately call next time... but golly, it all went so fast... :S
what are we even meant to do in that situation?!
scary psychopath and her gang of 6 or so boys backing her up... i was scared of her, i didn't even look at them :S
i hope narnie is ookay :S
it always happens far too quick, with your mind rushing to think of an answer of how to react. I kind of took a few steps, yelled stop it loudly, but nothing else -.-
ReplyDeletei don't really think i helped. But i cannot stand violence, nor could i ever force it myself D:
Humans are stupid sometimes. I mean, we have purpose and can be pretty cool most of the time, but with things like this, it looks stupid and pointless.
Just like her stupid white belt.
haha >.<
Narnie doesn't deserve that :(
the belt really was stupid. that's all i kept thinking :/
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