Where is the compassion?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

They evidently have a fear of using a cell phone for calling for help as well.

Precisely my thoughts

As already posted...far better if someone attending points out an individual ghoul or zombie (our talk for those who stand idly by simply gazing) and in an assertive tone gives a clear instruction to them telling them what you require them to do.

[Skybird]

As Sailor Steve already pointed out, Kitty Genovese is a case which today is mentioned in social spoychology classes in first semesters at university, and gets a chapter in every general teaching book on social psychology. Unfortunately, it is not the only such case. And if you read the papers carefully, you will not pass a single week without several such stories being mentioned.

Such behaviour of bystanders is disgusting, but nothing new on the world of social research. I personally have learned one lesson in my life: the more people are around, the less are the chances that I could get help from them if I need some. I also do not wait for, or expect, such help anymore.

Linked to this socialpsychologic phenomenen is that of "Gaffer": disaster tourists who even interfere with rescuing services and block the traffic in order to watch what is going on and take pictures. I would put such behavior under severe penalty, it is causing much problems all the time, and puts people's lives at risk. Elendes sensationsgeiles Pack. They better should sit at home and watch Big Brother.

Sailor Steve again is right where he sais that if you want to engage in mpotivating others to help, you have to individually confront single persons, and doing so in a commanding, I would even recommend: intimidating, manner. As long as people hide in a crowd, they will carry on to do just that: hide in the crowd. OPick them out individually, expose them as individuals to their very own attention, so that they realise they are not part of a crowd, but are individual people who are personally and individually connected to what is going on. that is your only chance to get them doing something useful. You will noite that the police gives you comparable advice in case of you coming into a situation of some thugs mobbing or attacking a victim on the street, or in a train: do not attack the attackers all by yourself, hoping you set an example by that that will motivate others to follow you - chnaces are that you will find yourself being left alone. Instead directly and demandingly approach individual people and command them to get personally engaged, by calling the police or pulling the meegency brake or giving first aid or whatever.

NEVER trust in groups and crowds, NEVER. Not only intelligence and reasonability is inverse proportional to group size (the greater the group, the less sign of intelligent life there is), but the motivation to engage in own action is inverse-proportional to group size as well.

Exceptions just confirm the general rule.