Bystanders

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.

The bystander would have to live with them not helping in the first place and would have that guilt on their conscious. Now what i'm saying is, this law isn’t necessary because truly the worst punishment to give a bystander is the bystander having to live with themselves after they have done such a thing or actually what he hasn’t done. There's a story that i heard recently where a man, a homeless man saved a woman from being robbed on the streets of New York. This man, in the process of saving this person, gets stabbed by the robber and the robber and the women flea on their separate ways. The robber nor the women came back. Pedestrians walked passed this man time and time again and did nothing until one young man came and turned him over on his back and after doing that, walked away. Don’t you think if you found out a man you attempted to help but gave up, died in that exact spot you left him, would have a miserable life having to think of that day in and day

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.

“Good Samaritan” doctrine, which imposes a legal duty to help or call for help for imperiled strangers. American bystander rule is there’s no legal duty to rescue or summon help for someone who’s in danger even if the bystander risks nothing by helping. Only a few jurisdictions follow the “Good Samaritan” rule, nearly all follow the approach of the American bystanders rule.

Why do people not want to help others that are in need? There are several people that would rather watch the person that is in need continue suffering rather than calling for help. In the United States, there is not a law saying that it is illegal for a person not to assist another that is in need. Would you help that person if it was your mom, dad, brother, etc.? The answer is most likely yes, you would try to do anything it took to save them no matter their condition. The “Good Samaritan” law would make it where if a person is in need of assistance then you are required to help them. The United States, she pass this law to make it illegal to ignore a citizen that could use the help.

As stated above, I believe humans should help each other. I understand why people feel the need to potentially harm themselves in the act of saving others. Some do it for glory while others do it out of the kindness of their heart. Humans should go out and help each other, however, before any helping is done one must consider their own self preservation in a

Many people would probably say that if they saw an injured person, they would stop to help them. When put in the situation, however, would they actually stop? The United States of America does not require that pedestrians, who are not involved, help the ones who are. This is no excuse not to help, though. Even helping in just a small way could save a life.

A 10 year old boy is hailed a hero after an unfortunate bus failure. Nicholas Sierra, a 10 year old safety patrol saved 3 small children from drowning in a partly submerged bus. At 2:29 pm on a Thursday coming back from school, his bus spun off the road into a nearby pond in Hillsborough County. Nicholas acted fast and carried out one kindergartener from the bus in alligator infested water. Then he actually went back in a brought out 2 more kids, a second and first grader both not knowing how to swim. The rest of that night Nicholas was traumatized. The bus driver, Lenior Sainfilmin, was suspended with pay in till investigators figure out what went wrong. Lenior though states that he tried to stop the bus but the brakes ended up being corroded

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.

Over the Fourth of July weekend, there were multiplying shootings that took place in Chicago. Injuring over eighty-two people and out of this eighty-to people fourteen of them were killed. All of those shooting didn’t take place at the same time they all happen days and hours after each other. I don’t know the cause of all of those deaths, but I do know the police were involved in them. All of the victims ranged from age 14-66. A little boy was shot while watching fireworks with his dad. The dad thought it was just fireworks going off but it was actually gun shots. He looked over looking for the little boy calling his name and he found the little boy unresponsive. Another young boy was shot also, neither one of the boys was the intended target.

Hi Shlanda- Thank you for your response! Yes, you are correct in any situation that bystanders are more likely to help because they are dealing with just one individual and a medical condition being present, but when more individuals are already present to help out I can agree with you that most individuals at that point would mind their own business and go on with their

Many people assume that someone will get involved in a dangerous situation. You would think that one person would take action and help, but most people fail to help someone in need. Why does no one help or take action during these types of events?. Are they scared for their own safety or are they too busy worrying about themselves to get involved. What would you do if that person in need of help was a loved one?. Would you react differently or would your actions remain the same?.

If you watch something awful happens and do nothing to help, should you be held responsible in a court of law? Why or why not. Yes, you should. In my opinion, a bystander’s act is worse than the perpetrator. The witnesses are capable of saving someone’s life but they choose not to. This act is so inhumane and disgusting. So I think they should also be blamed for the incident. Some of the acts are just ridiculous, like the woman who filmed her friend getting sexually assaulted, I can tell there was some misunderstanding between the man and the two 'grown' women and one of them got angry so she decided to deal with the situation in that cruel way which was unnecessary and caused more chaos. There are millions of better ways to handle the problem.

The greater number of bystanders, the less likely it is that anyone of them will help” There are two reasons as to why the bystander effect occurs. Reason one is because of misinterpretations between the bystanders, with multiple people being there scatters the responsibility of helping the person in distress, therefore one person thinks that the other person present will do it and vice-versa resulting in nobody helping out. The second reason being that socially acceptable behaviour, if nobody is helping, should I? Is it socially wrong to help them and could I potentially get hurt helping this person? It’s sad to know that the presence of others discourages individuals to intervene in emergency

In a legal point of view, I would agree with this law. To rescue a person or not, it’s really depend on the situation and it’s hard to define a person’s condition at that moment is able to save a life or not. There are many examples that, someone is trying to help the others and end up losing their life. There can be many reasons why people are not helping, and the law won’t able to set a rule on certain reason when a person should hold liability or not. Everyone can said they don’t want to risk their own life to help someone and the law can’t said this is wrong. However, in a human point of view, it’s wrong not to do anything at all. Even we have the right to choose not to risk our life on others, but there are many