what the **** is wrong with people?

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this is a graphic video thus i'm not embedding it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys9DPhAMJr0&t=75

how can some one run over some one, stop briefly and then continue on not even moving them out of the way of the rear wheels... and then it looks like later on a fire brigade drives by.... and another truck runs her over a third time. all those people... one person moves her off to the side but still leaves her there like garbage... wtf.
 
Sad but true reality. Human life is not valued by humans no matter what society we live in. We produce enough food in an entire day to feed the entire world, but that doesn't happen. All because of greed. All the kids being whipped and made to work in sweat shops so you can have the latest smart phone or so that the company you invested in has more profit.

Greed > life
 
That's a new level of low, even for the Chinese.
 
WTF! How freaking sad
 
Not sure which is worst, the driver that ran her over and just went along his way, or the people passing by and didn't even bother to check up on her... How sad indeed.
 
BusaBob said:
sickening
believe it or not, a LOT of people are capable of this level of callousness. it's called bystander apathy or Genovese syndrome.
http://www.uncommon-knowledge.co.uk/articles/bystander-apathy.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
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That only applies in groups. The bystander effect is when people see other people doing nothing to help, which convinces them that the situation must be normal. So each person ends up looking at the others for guidance and as a result they all end up enabling everyone to do nothing. In this situation, there were a half dozen solitary people who walked by the girl and delibertely looked the other way, which is quite different.

The way they so casually disregard such a clearly injured person tells me that it must happen quite frequently. It's like they're desensitized, which as far as I know can only be attributed to a lot of exposure to such situations. The thing that doesn't quite add up to me is that it made the news, which would tend to indicate the opposite; that this is a very uncommon situation, one that the great majority of the TV audience would be shocked and dismayed by. I wonder if it is an indication of the existence of two extremely dissociated social classes in this video. One which endures hardship and suffering throughout their lives, who's population see the suffering or death of a child as insignificant. Then the other class of comfortable living, TV-watching, life-valuing people who are isolated from the day-to-day realities of the world outside of their immediate experience.

As far as I can tell, both the incident and the news report took place in China, which would be an indication of an extremely fractured Chinese society (apart from it's sheer brutality and heartlessness).
 
i've been through a few situations where i have had to help someone that was injured, i wouldn't be the first person on the scene, but would find people just standing and staring...it's why they tell you look at one person in particular and tell them what to do, call 911 or whatever it is you need done...people just have no clue, it's amazing...or rather most people don't know what to do in those types of situations...meh, people...
 
fastar1 said:
That only applies in groups. The bystander effect is when people see other people doing nothing to help
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It applies to public settings where there are other random people around, not just within a clearly defined group. It also occurs when there is merely the perception that there are other people around.

in the Genovese incident, there were numerous individual people who heard the woman's screams for help while inside their own home, but the diffusion of responsibility effect still occurred, as the "responsibility" became spread out through the neighborhood.

The same effect occurs on a sidewalk, busy or not. There doesn't have to be a lot of people around in a clearly defined "group". It's just that the effect becomes greater the more people there are, or there are perceived to be.

In this Chinese video clip, I imagine there were at least 1 or 2 other people in the area out of camera view at any given moment.

The important thing to keep in mind is that knowing that this is a normal human reaction empowers a person to suppress it and be able to render help if it is ever needed.
 
People just don't want to get involved with anything. Not exactly the same situation but something I was involved in. On my street, a large possum was hit by a car and was lying dead in the middle of the road. I didn't want to see it run over with it's guts splattered since kids play in the area. So I took it upon myself to pick up the animal and put in the garbage bag and remove it. As I was doing this someone across the street yelled out to me to leave it alone, animal control was going to pick it up. I yelled back I didn't want to get run over again and if he'd prefer to see it squashed? WTF? Someone actually told me not to do anything. Why are people so F-ed up?
 
when i was 10, i broke my leg after falling down some outdoor stairs in the apartment complex we lived at. I wasn't able to stand up, and it hurt too much to move on my own. no body came to actually help me. I was there for about 20-30 minutes before someone carried me back to my apartment.

it was the evening rush hour time, and there were numerous people in the area walking home. they all looked at me and then looked away as i called out to them for help.
 
the parents should be hung for leaving her alone; the drivers should be shot; the as-holes who walked by but didn't do anything should be beheaded; and the government should be slapped for lacking the effort to educate these as-holes
 
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