Reaction Paper On Apathy

In fact, Census (2013) shows that in Australia, 15% of the population claimed they had no religion within 2001, this has risen to least 22% today. An influence which has been addressed is that, the wealthier nations are becoming more content and assured as they have developed progressively indifferent to religious morals. Despite wealth being a catalyst of the decline of religion in Australia, CBC News (2012) asserted that the one of the main factors for the deterioration of religion in the Western society is ‘existential security’ meaning that individuals live in a somewhat unchanging, democratic society. This has resulted to countries such as Australia alongside having a solid social security having the least religious individuals (CBC News, 2013). These concepts are generally supported in the survey findings with most respondents claim that Australians see organized religion as "out-dated" in Australia and not needed in the society. In addition to this, another factor argued to the reason why religion is declining is the age. In fact, the investigation specified earlier which showed that age thought to be a vigorous stimulus in faith in God (by National Opinion Research Center, 2017). This has been further supported to surveys claiming that “in the society that majority of people who believe in an organized religion are elderly and less teens.” This establishes that there are various other influences of decline in religion within Australia despite of the countries’ separation from religious

When it comes to issues that arise that can potentially destroy life as we know it, issues like mass genocide, terrorism, and abuse of power, indifference will lead to the ultimate demise our most simple human characteristic, humility. Denoted as the lack of difference or distinction between two or more things, indifference is the worst response. Not only are you empowering the oppressor and giving them the green light by not checking their actions but you are saying to the oppressed, “Your cries of pain are not heard.” Holocaust Survivor, Elie Wiesel graced an audience with his April 12, 1999 White House Millennium Lecture entitled, “The Perils of Indifference.” Many people hide behind the vail of the bystander effect theory, which is commonly

Social psychology first examined the phenomena later termed “bystander effect” in response to a 1964 murder. The murder of a young woman with as many as 38 witnesses and none who helped until it was too late. The bystander effect is individuals seeing an emergency situation but not helping. There are many reasons why individuals do not respond: diffusion of responsibility, not noticing or unsure if it is an emergency, and not wanting to be liable if the person still dies are a few.

The Bystander effect is a controversial theory given to social phenomenon where the more potential helpers there are, the less likely any individual is to help. A traditional explanation for this Bystander Effect is that responsibility diffuses across the multiple bystanders, diluting the responsibility of each. (Kyle et al.) The Bystander effect, also known as the Genovese Syndrome, was created after the infamous murder of “Kitty” Catherine Genovese in 1964, on the streets of New York in front of thirty-seven witnesses. After studying the Genovese syndrome and doing research on how this phenomenon occurs today, it is clear The Bystander effect is not theory, but actually fact.

Millennials, backed by the rising Generation Z, have proved themselves to be the most secular demographic that the United States has ever borne witness to. On the political spectrum, too, there has been an increase in support from these generations for leftist viewpoints and alignments. This palpable change within the nation’s politics has raised concerns about the communion between religious people and the far left. Matthew Sitman’s article, “Against Moral Austerity: How Religion Can Revitalize the Left,” emphasizes a need for the conjoined forces of faith and liberalism to inspire political change. Written from the biased perspective of a devout Catholic, Sitman struggles to appeal to the secular end of the spectrum through a valid argument but provides enough supportive detail behind his ideas to create, at the very least, an acceptable

The decline in religion across America is most likely related to the increase inIndividualism, among many Americans in the 21st century. “The decline in religions practice has gone down 29% from the Silent generation to the younger Millennial” (Decline of mainline Protestantism and Catholicism). Many argue that culture influences, portioning to college and other environments, would be the greatest factor in the big question as to why Americas on a religious decline. However Individualism seems to be the greatest contributing factor. Individualism highlights selfish motives, only caring about ones self, and laziness. All things that religious believes takes away from a individual.

According to data from the Pew Research Center, Americans are becoming less religious, but, simultaneously, more spiritual. Often described as “nones,” these individuals have rejected the trappings of institutional religion, yet still feel “a deep sense of spiritual peace and well-being as well as a deep sense of wonder about the universe.”

In the year of 1964, a woman named Kitty Genovese was murdered in plain sight of her on-looking New York City neighbors, however, none of them attempted to help or notify the authorities. This event gave rise to the term “Genovese Effect” otherwise known as the “Bystander Effect”. The name refers to the phenomenon that occurs when large groups of people don't take the responsibility of helping in a dire situation. Unsurprisingly, when reading the book “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, many readers see a direct correlation between the story and the bystander effect. Towards the beginning of "Night", we see the first instance of the bystander effect shown when nobody living in Sighet does anything to heed Moishe's warnings.

Chapter 3 of the book Superfreakonommics published in 2009, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner discusses about apathetic nature of human beings. The author starts off with the story of Mrs. Genovese who was sexually assaulted, stabbed and left to die by Mr. Moseley while having 38 witnesses. When police interviewed the witnesses, they used a variety of excuses like “We thought it was a lovers’ quarrel.” The author says that this incident took place when the crime rate in US were high because of various reasons like population explosion, expansion of civil rights and strangely, the introduction of television. The author includes some statistics to prove his claim but comes back saying that none of this proves why no one stepped in to help

A haunting story that will always stay stagnant through time is the case of Kitty Genovese, a young woman living in New York. In March of 1964 she was walking home in the early morning from work. A man under the name of Winston Moseley followed her with his car, eventually got out, chased after her, and stabbed her multiple times. She cried for help to any and all neighbors living in her apartment complex, one man even yelling at Winston to leave her alone. None of them, for that matter, called the police. As he continued to stab her, he raped her. Then he laid her body on the side of the road, and left. This was the first case to coin the term ‘bystander effect’. Thirty-eight witnesses watched and heard her cries for help, none of them deciding

Darley and Latane begin their essay by using solid examples of when the bystander effect presented itself, and why people were harmed because of it. They explain why nice people do not help in certain situations, and why someone can pass by a person in distress when others are around, and why more people respond when no one is around. Darley and Latane show what it takes for people to respond; they have to actually realize that it is an emergency and not a ruse or a normal occurrence. Sitting idly by while a dangerous situation is happening does not make someone a bad person, it just reveals their humanity.

This is why in the past twenty five years, “nonreligious Americans has increased by well over 200 percent...making it the fastest growing “religious” orientation in [America]”(Zuckerman, 5). Throughout the years, the stigma of secularism, more commonly known as Atheism, has a negative feel towards

Apathy is when people have no sense of emotion towards anything, they don’t care. They absolutely have no motivation to do or think about anything. They have no goals that they want to achieve because they have lost their sense in accomplishing things. Apathy has become one of the most controversial issues in today’s society. It’s something

The bystander effect was first observed by the media and social psychologists in 1964 through the case of Kitty Genovese, a 28-year old woman. On her way home from work, Genovese was stabbed multiple times over the course of 30 minutes. The murderer was able to leave the scene multiple times and come back to stab Genovese more. While this was happening, 38 people observed this from their window. Despite the number of people who viewed the incident, no one reported this incident was happening to the authorities. While this was written off as an effect from living in a large city by the media, psychologists John Darley and Bibb Latané realized something else was occurring: the bystanders all realized that other people were watching and assumed that another person would report the incident. This caused social inhibition amongst all of the viewers which in

By and large, apathy is considered the antithesis of human advancement and achievement; Einstein himself said that “the world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.” And while it is true that absolute apathy—complete lack of concern for anything or anyone— is not something that is desired (or even humanly possible), there is some measure of this attitude that is desperately needed in today’s world.