Pushed on the subway track

[jc100]

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I thought I read somewhere that desensitisation is a factor in behaviour like this. You see beheadings on the internet, fatal car crashes on TV...pictures of shooting victims in newspapers and all of a sudden you start to get desensitised and forget that you're seeing pictures of fathers, sisters, brothers, children etc...they just become more visual images for some kind of morbid entertainment purpose.

On another note...I'd like to think I would have the common decency to help someone in a situation like this but I know for a fact that I'd get angry enough to punch anyone standing around taking cellphone footage of someone dying.

 

[FiReSTaRT]

And that's what makes me absolutely sick. People like that make me almost as angry as those who committed the actual crime.

And when the video of that Chinese toddler run over came up, people were acting as if our **** didn't stink

 

[Scudzo_2]

NY Post has the same ethics as the TO Sun? Wow!

 

[short stop]

And when the video of that Chinese toddler run over came up, people were acting as if our **** didn't stink

Yep. We're definitely not ones to feel morally superior. Besides, it sounded like the Chinese had some reasonable explanations as to why they didn't intervene (IIRC there are many instances of liability, no legal protection for Good Samaritans, etc). I'm not saying it's an excuse, but we certainly don't have any excuses of our own in this society.

 

[BLUE_KAWI]

The camera phone has made everyone into a "camera man". Instead of helping people, most start taking photos thinking they have contributed. When someone mans up and helps, these camera man have a puzzled look.

Sad world we live in.

 

[Venom01]

This whole thing is disgusting. I don't think I'd be Able to live with myself if I didn't even try to help.

This is my signature

 

[RockerGuy]

I don't recall that

Where a toddler lie in the streets and people passed her without helping her. She was apparently dying because she was run over a truck. Google it, my memory is hazy.

 

[Macs]

I thought I read somewhere that desensitisation is a factor in behaviour like this. You see beheadings on the internet, fatal car crashes on TV...pictures of shooting victims in newspapers and all of a sudden you start to get desensitised and forget that you're seeing pictures of fathers, sisters, brothers, children etc...they just become more visual images for some kind of morbid entertainment purpose.

On another note...I'd like to think I would have the common decency to help someone in a situation like this but I know for a fact that I'd get angry enough to punch anyone standing around taking cellphone footage of someone dying.

I'd be tempted to disagree and there's very little in the way of respected psychological studies regarding desensitization being a factor in things like this. There's always a difference between seeing something online and actually experiencing it.

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