[Skybird]

For the fourth time: the video - and me - do not target or complain about people not knowing what to do when getting surprised by something like this. The problem is people who very well make decisions here: to take pictures and to post them, to stay on the scene to enjoy the show without doing anything positive, to not even call help but just get away so that their private lives and plans for the day do not get delayed by a minute when calling 911 or sitting by the side of an injured for five minutes until the medics come.

The distorted standards, the failure of basic rules of being a "civilised" person.

Like probably almost everybody here I occasionally came across street scenes of a car accident or an ambulance parked and a patient getting loaded in, or a collision on the Autobahn. But I always moved on when seeing my help is not needed and help already is on scene, I never felt the need to just stand and stare. Why should I? It is so completely beyond me that I fail to see how people could react like this and decide to stand and watch the show, pointing fingers and grinning in excitement. Its no decision of mine, and no force I use against myself to prevent me from standing and watching - to me it is just the natural thing to do: you cannot do anything, your help makes no difference and is not needed or wanted - so you move on. You make no difference - so why stare at the intimate suffering of somebody else?

But being able to help by calling an ambulance with your cellphone; or instead of doing that using the cellphone camera to take pictures of a man in need...??? Or being angry about the victim of an apparent crime daring to ruin your evening by exposing its bleeding wound to you when it collapses on the street...?

Sorry, I do not forgive that, and accept no excuses for that.

The problem here is a fail in moral standards (photo-takers, and social-psychological group dynamics known as "bystander effects". It says that the more bystanders are witnessing an event where their help would be needed, the less probability there is that any of them actually will help indeed. I would attribute both also to some tpyical failures in civilzational value systems deriving from living in modern mass environments and metropoles.