Bystander's Act Is Unfair

In the book Bystander, Eric, the protagonist, was a bystander, who noticed about bullying but, never did anything about it. Eric learned to take action for what is right to prevent from bullying and not be a bystander. As Eric realized that he was a bystander, he learned to stand up and confront the bullies.

Everyday humans are presented with new opportunities and situations. These events can change the way they think and make decisions. But it's the way it can change ones relationships that can really hurt one's ability to care. There is a total of 7.442 billion people alive today. Yet only a small portion of that are people one truly cares about. For many people, a specific setting, situation or emotion can alter the way people can think rationally.

Nonetheless, the bystander effect does not apply to everybody without exception. There are still some people who will sincerely try their best to help others, like Hugo Tale-Yax who actually was trying a help a woman under assault when the attacker killed him (Litch 651). I believe as long as one person try their best to help, so will others. In the end, try our best to help is better than do nothing but only the help from other

In the novel Bystander, Eric, the main character, learns how to choose the right friends and even though he get’s betrayed he doesn’t back down-he keeps trying desperately to make bonds and friends with the “right” friends .

“There’s far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don’t realize. It’s not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There’s a lot of things you have to deal with.” This quote was said by Robert Griffin, who is an American football quarterback that was drafted in 2012 to the Washington Redskins in the NFL draft. This man is explaining how there is a reason that professional athletes are paid. They are paid because they must deal with other things that college athletes don’t have to deal with and because they made it to the pros. Students should be against college athletes being paid because it is illegal, they aren’t at the professional level of play, and it would tear about the bond they have with their teammates. Not a lot of people can say that they did that and for college athletes to be complaining and taking money under the table is so wrong. You’re in college and your nothing compared to those guys. I don’t care if you’re the best in the NCAA, there is absolutely no reason you should be making money while in college. Most of these guys have full scholarships so there that’s your motivation to play.

Honestly yes they should have the responsibility to intervene when something bad is happening. Because who wouldn’t want to help someone who is trouble that needs help from a bystander that just passing by. My question is “ are they at fault if they don’t intervene ?” Bystanders should not have to live with the guilt that they should have, or they should've done something to stop but didn’t. You don’t have to have to hold it against you that you didn’t help them because you weren’t sure if you should intervene with something so dangerous that could possibly hurt you.

The bystander effect has been studied multiple times across many different scenarios, and the overall findings have been quite similar (Fischer et al., 2011). Darley and Latane’s (1968) pivotal study uncovered the effect of bystanders in the classic experiment where participants witnessed another participant having a seizure over an intercom system. Participants were witness to the emergency either alone, or in the perceived presence of other participants. Darley and Latane found the individual’s speed of reporting the emergency and feelings of personal responsibility decreased with the presence of other bystanders. This study opened the gates for subsequent research and led researchers to understand that it is often the presence of bystanders, rather than an indifference towards the victim, that leads to inaction in an

“Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder But Didn’t Call the Police” is unfortunately a true story about citizens who witnessed their neighbor being assaulted and didn’t take action. The neighbor’s negligence perturbed me, and I had to look into it. The Samuel Merritt University refers to it as “The Bystander Effect” and explains it as “a diffusion of responsibility . . . the more people there are to witness an event, the less each individual feels personally responsible for doing something” (Samuel Merritt University, “Bystander Intervention & Prevention”). This article about Kitty Genovese and her selfish neighbors reminded me of a dispute I once saw between a small group and an individual. It wasn’t the fight that startled me, but the group of apprehensive

This essay aims to explore the reasons as to why society can allow tragic acts to take place in the witness of neighbours, without any form of intervention and also how dramatic instances of crime can tell us about how people live together and the perceptions that creates not only of an individual’s effects on society, but also the community sense. Firstly by explaining the phenomena of the ‘Bystander behaviour’ also known as ‘Bystander Apathy’ and the ‘relational identity’ of the neighbour, showing it is not who we are but what we do. This can be seen in “Bystander effect” (Open University, 2015). Secondly to compare and contrast the two distinctive approaches that explain ‘Bystander behaviour’. One approach being the experimental method

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Four people sit in a room, one directly behind the other. In front is the victim, behind is the perpetrator, behind them is the witness, and in the very back is the authority. The victim turns their back to the 3 people behind. On top of the victim's head is temptation. The authority, gets up from their chair, says to the bystander, “Let me know if you need anything”, and steps outside of the room. The perpetrator with a lack of authority, has a chance. The perpetrator grabs the temptation and the victim does not notice. The witness does notice but does not notify the authority and becomes the bystander. With all 4 components, a crime has occurred and will continue to until something changes. The people are stuck in their roles until anything changes. In a quote from Miles Lehrman, a holocaust survivor, he states, “A perpetrator is not the most dangerous enemy.

As I was watching him my mind did try to rationalize trying to save him but what could have I done at the point, was I physically strong enough to restrain him? What if he tried to hurt me while I was trying to help him? One idea from the model of helping that really resonated with me was the “diffusion of responsibility”. Though it may have been short, I have personally battled with the idea that someone else within this large crowd will try to help this man, someone who is more suited to help. Reflecting on that experience it did put make me feel as if I did not know who I really was. As I said before I have always thought of myself as an empathetic person, someone who cares for those around me. This analysis did give me insight on my thought process and reasoning for why so many people, including myself, were standing there as this man tried to kill himself. Ultimately, as I reflect on the bystander effect it does give me some form of closure as personally I did feel a level of guilt surrounding that event. For those who are placed in similar situations, this phenomenon allows them to have some form of explanation and context for their inability to react regardless of the severity. Through education of the effect itself actually does have merit as it is statistically shown that

The first aspect of the bystander effect is the shared responsibility, but according to research by K. Thomas et. al (2016) a more important

On April 4, 2018 at approximately 0110 hours I was searching the area for runaway W/M juvenile, Deavon Denton. I located a W/M riding a bicycle east on Regis AVE approaching Chapel AVE. I observed him walk into the front yard of a residence for a few moments and then continue to ride his bicycle east. I observed the bicycle to be lacking a light on the front. I conducted a traffic stop on the bicycle and confirmed the W/M was Deavon.

There have been many cases in which bystanders have appeared to do nothing at crime scenes. The most famous of one is the case of Kitty Genovese when she was stabbed to death outside a busy neighbourhood and no one came to her help even though there were plenty of witnesses. This raises the question what has changed in our understanding of Bystander behaviour? By knowing this we will be able to find out more about how and why we as humans do it. I chose the diffusion of responsibility theory and the ambiguity theory to see if I can find out if any of our behaviour has changed. I have done this by analysing and evaluating studies by Latané and Darley, Piliavin et al, Shotland and Straw and Fischer et al. I found their studies and analysed them and then evaluated them. There are more studies on that have been done that have the diffusion of responsibility theory in compared to ambiguity in but that was down to how we as humans try and put responsibility as of others on someone else than ourselves and also the fact that we don’t always feel like we can help in the situation.