How Important Is The Bystander

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 third reason for why people obey is when a person shifts from the autonomous state to the agentic state; this is called the agentic shift. Milgrams participants believed they were ‘just following orders’ and did not consider themselves responsible; his participants even sighed with relief when the experimenter said “I am responsible for what happens here.” Evidence from war criminals, has shown that Eichmann, who was trialled and found guilty for the Nazi war killings as he was the man who organized which camps the Jewish people would end up at, said “it wasn’t my

One day Hasselstrom was driving to her mailbox when she saw four drunken men littering, urinating and throwing beer cans all over her property. Hasselstrom is a person that does not want to be taken advantage of, so she is going to take action. She asked the men to pick up the beer cans from the ground but they pretended to be blind. Two of them started to approach the car, one guy started shaking the car and the other guy tried to reach for the car door. It’s clear they are trying to take advantage of her and trying to harass her, then she ask the men again to pick up the beer cans but this time she used her gun to point them out. In a heartbeat the men picked up all the cans and jumped in their car and speeded off. Linda said “The pistol just changed the balance of power”. Four men had taken advantage of her property and tried to harass her but the gun gave her a balance of power and didn’t make her feel weak and powerless.

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.

The bystander effect is a social psychological scenario where a person who is in an urgent situation is not given any help by the people around due to the discourage from the presence of others (whatispsychology.biz, 2017). Social psychologists, John Darley and Bibb Latane, introduced the bystander effect in the 1960s after the murder of Kitty Genovese, a young woman who was stabbed to death outside her home in New York City. It took her attacker more than half an hour to kill her, and during that time, thirty-eight people saw her being murdered, and they did nothing to help her. “The responsibility for helping was diffused among the observers” (Darley & Latane, 1968).

What is the “Good Samaritan rule and when does it apply. A “Good Samaritan is an individual who usually goes out of their way to help someone or somebody in a time of need. This can be carried out in the time of an emergency on a voluntary basis. Under this rule a person is not legally obligated to render aid to someone unless they are in unconscious state and cannot respond.

Without a doubt, heroes, the result of the personality traits of a hero, are certainly not the result of the time and place of an event. For instance, in the article “Are You a Hero or a Bystander?” by Sue Shellenbarger, everyday heroes, Ms.Eldridge, Stephen St. Bernard, and Lt. Cmdr. Gennari have their heroic stories shared with the intention of teaching people what it means to be a hero and what it takes. This article’s purpose has absolutely no connection to the time and place of an event, proving my claim correct. In addition, the article also wants to teach people the personality traits needed to become a hero by using graphics like the “Gauge Your Hero Potential” survey.

This essay will ‘compare and contrast’ two approaches made in investigating the ‘bystander effect’. It will discuss in some depth as to what exactly is meant by the bystander effect, illustrating when this concept was first shown and why. An outline will be made of the different methods used, those being experiments and discourse analysis, explaining each one in turn, within the framework of two cases. The first being the murder of ‘Catherine Genovese,’ 1964.and the second ‘James Bulger’ 1993. The essay will then show examples of the differences and similarities between each method. Concluding with a summary of findings into the two approaches to investigating the Bystander Effect.

In life, the line that separates victims from perpetrators is as clear as a window pane, but in some situations that window can crack, causing damage and danger. A victim is someone who has been harmed, or worse, due to a crime or accident. A perpetrator is a person who has committed a crime, either accidently or purposely. Three stories that capture this blurred line are Shattered, an Australian Story episode on ABC’s website, The Story of Tom Brennan, a story written by Australian author J.C.Burke, and In My Little Town, another Australian Story episode. They all share the common theme of having a blurred line between victim and perpetrator.

The bystander effect, is a “social psychological phenomenon that refers to cases in which individuals do not offer any means of help to a victim when other people are present”(Weiten). Such reactions usually occur when individuals do not want to risk getting involved in the situation. In Chronicles of a Death Foretold, even though the townspeople do not desire the murder of Santiago Nasar,their unwillingness or lack of courage to take action in preventing this “foretold murder” consequently allows for the murder to happen. The idea of disturbing the status-quo and risk of involvement overshadows the Sucré citizens’ moral values. Even though a scale of individual willingness to avert the crime is presented such as Colonel Lazaro Aponte’s fulfilling his duty ,Clotilde Armenta’s multiple attempts and Father Armando’s total indifference; none of the townspeople want to be directly implicated in the matter.

An example of this if someone sins the rest of the group has to choose a consequence. Part 3: After

Second, the victim might be placed in situations that are out of their control. For example, the victim might be in the wrong place at the wrong time and as a result they become part of the issue. In Act 4 Scene 3, we see the bride

Throughout life people face countless decisions; however, making the wrong choice may lead to a catastrophic consequence. As a woman was being brutally stabbed in Kew Gardens near Austin Street, numerous bystanders did not help or act upon calling the police. The choice of the bystanders to not phone the police lead to the death of an innocent woman. Had just one of the thirty-eight people called the police, that innocent woman would still have breath in her lungs. In the article “Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police,” Martin Gansberg expresses his anger and disapproval toward those who left a poor woman to die. If the thirty-eight people took immediate action and did not make excuses, the precious life of Catherine Genovese would have been rescued.

Bystander awareness is very important to our society. It is meaningful because everyone can get in a trouble and one day everyone need help. What will happen to our society if all people become indifferent to each other? New generations now are hard heated and nobody wants to risk themselves for the sake of strangers. But on the other side, it is a good point, because unreasonable risk can badly affect on you.

In this play there are many incidents which show how police officers and the judges help each other in their fallacious activity. This incident portrays how the police officers use their authority to manipulate the people and cause corruption in the society.