December 3rd, 2012, Ki-Suck Han is a 58-year-old New York resident and frequent subway passenger who was staring into the eyes of his fate after getting off work, Han was struck by an oncoming Q-train after being pushed onto the tracks in the way of the train. Han got himself into a brutal argument with mid-20-year-old homeless man, Naeem Davis. The moment when Han attempted to lift himself out of harm's way, Han was already staring into the face of the train accompanied by the recording and pictures taking of other passengers waiting for the tragedy to occur. Conversely, Han was struck and killed. This brought a wave of instant guilt to all the passengers attending to the subway that afternoon. So why did no one come to his assistance?
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John Darley and Bibb Latané explain and study the occurrence that refers to when individuals refrain from providing assistance to someone in distress when others don’t do anything either. Accordingly, when people are within a group they are less likely to help someone if they feel they are going to be judged or are invading social normality. This is presumed as Bystander Apathy. However, Bystander Apathy is perceived as disrespectful or poor manners, our tendency aims for this anyway. So who would find Bystander Apathy as a situation that might not be too big of a …show more content…
Through careful study and planning on this subject which is extremely controversial, we must adopt a law which states we need to require citizens to report or assist in incidents that may be life threatening for others in distress or is considered a crime by U.S law. We should be more sympathetic to others and put ourselves in someone else's situation to make the correct decision towards and incident. As a community, we cannot ignore a situation if someone sees the incident as it is not their responsibility, since the people we presume whom it's ordinarily their job to help are not actually obligated to help without a Bystander Law being implemented. We need to adopt this law, just because it might not be your life on the line, we must at least be charismatic towards our own
John Darley and Bibb Latané explain and study the occurrence that refers to when individuals refrain from providing assistance to someone in distress when others don’t do anything either. Accordingly, when people are within a group they are less likely to help someone if they feel they are going to be judged or are invading social normality. This is presumed as Bystander Apathy. However, Bystander Apathy is perceived as disrespectful or poor manners, our tendency aims for this anyway. So who would find Bystander Apathy as a situation that might not be too big of a …show more content…
Through careful study and planning on this subject which is extremely controversial, we must adopt a law which states we need to require citizens to report or assist in incidents that may be life threatening for others in distress or is considered a crime by U.S law. We should be more sympathetic to others and put ourselves in someone else's situation to make the correct decision towards and incident. As a community, we cannot ignore a situation if someone sees the incident as it is not their responsibility, since the people we presume whom it's ordinarily their job to help are not actually obligated to help without a Bystander Law being implemented. We need to adopt this law, just because it might not be your life on the line, we must at least be charismatic towards our own