Why People Act Without Thinking

When responding to situations in life people must consider if doing so will benefit themselves or the people around them. In circumstances that demand quick thinking people often can not form a concrete decision based on how little information and time they have. In life people frequently must try to do so through their daily battles with the people around them as well as themselves.

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.

Living in a wetico infested culture and being brought up in our day in age is sickening because we teach our young from a young age that you must have money and power and be rich in the future in order to be successful in life, which is not true. In my opinion in order to be successful you must do what you love one life and be happy and live life to the fullest. Our own wars and personal suffering comes from our own wants instead of our needs and this is grown and festered within us from the time were born for wanting more and more and more and beeing greedy once people understand and know this it will be a relief and a blessing for them for they will live a better life. The next problem that people must know about is that in our human nature competition is not natural and in reality we are programmed to love one and other. Since our birth we are told that we must be the best the alpha the leader of the pack but all this is a lie because it will not give you true bliss and happiness. The mirror neurone in other animals is now found within us as when we are around people who are happy and loving it will make us happy and loving as well that is true human nature, that also goes for the opposite when you are around angry people you become stupid and blind. In the end people need to truly see and learn about these things so we can make the world clear and better and help them live better

People often only realize this after the worst occurs. One person’s actions can stop something from going downhill. In class, when we analyzed 60 Minute’s “Bad Samaritan,” through David Cash’s story, we came to realize that indeed, just one person’s actions could make a difference. If David Cash had stopped the violence, Sherrice Iverson would still be alive today. If Hitler chose not to exterminate Jews, the Holocaust would not have happened. The takeaway is that if we expand our universe of obligation, we will feel responsible for more people. In turn, we will help more people, and furthermore, we might prevent something terrible; we might prevent a genocide. Through analyses in class, we realize that more often than not, people have a very limited universe of obligation. In the video which we watched in class of a Gay Teen being bullied, many people in the surroundings of the video ignored the incident. It is clear, that they do not feel obligated to the teenager. Similarly, in Night, Franek simply takes out Eliezer’s crown without any guilt. Franek does not feel obligated to Eliezer. This feeling leads to the division of society. An analysis of Night allows teens to understand the need for an expansion, to create unity and change the world for the

Wallace felt it was very important to get the point across that people need to make a conscious choice when facing problems. He said,”that people who think, will actually be within the power to experience a crowded, loud, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but important (Wallace 6).” A person that thinks will have complete control of how that person handles the situation. If a person is driving to the gas station, but as soon as he arrives another driver cut him off the last minute, leaving no other fuel pumps open, that person may become angry and frustrated. But maybe if that person would have thought that he or she does not know what that other person is going through, maybe they could be rushing to bring their children home from school, or that person is rushing to the hospital to meet his dying parent. Maybe if that person was thinking it would have been a lot easier to not get frustrated. He said,” a person that thinks, gets to decide, how they are going to see it (Wallace 6).” Thinking can help a person enjoy the benefits of not being frustrated with things that a person cannot change.

forget the lives that were given. Others feel the need to stand up and do something

Societal pressures have an impact on how a person can think or act. As Lee Ross author of obedience once said, “ people’s inflated belief in the importance of personality traits and disposition, together with their failure to recognize the importance of situational factors in affecting behavior”(Ross, 628). The follower problem, a book written by David brooks makes the statement “these days many Americans seem incapable of thinking for themselves”(Brooks, 650). Doris Lessing a claim “how often we'd say black was white because other people were saying it”(Lessing 652).So why do people react act like this. Outside influences have a huge impact on how people react and make their decisions. If you are by yourself and

When a large number of people think this way it shows great dangers to our society because no one would ever try to fix the bad. They would just say oh well and move on with their life accepting all sorts of terrible things even though that in the end if people would work together then most of them could be solved. A society that is filled with indifference is a society that has not hope for the

Perhaps by paying close attention to the complications of the human life, we can understand that people are truly prevented from acting

society.Most of the people don’t think, they just do.They go through life freely with no rules.

Today, society is so used to seeing killings and violence. Are human nature is almost prone to not think anything is wrong with

taking action for our mistakes, instead of feeling sorry for ourselves, we should look at

So we have learned that before we act we should first think about the consequences of our actions. We must first ask ourselves of whether we are a help to the community, or whether we are placing a risk to others.

People today blame themselves more and more for every bad thing or "troubles" they have on personal fault rather then looking towards the social issue (Mills 1959, pg.1). In the article The Promise C. Wright Mills' say that "the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances" (Mills 1959, pg.2). This means that people can understand themselves better if they look past themselves and start looking at in conditions as a whole, not just blaming yourself but seeing that there is a problem in the society and you cannot necessarily

This type of thinking is both negative and selfish, putting everyone’s focus on them and their problems. What the individual does not