The most striking aspect of the article to me was that the author actually did something. Knowing what I do about psychology, this is not easy. There is a phenomenon called the “bystander effect,” which discusses how something horrible could occur in a large crowd and no one, or almost no one, says anything. When one witnesses a harmful event in a large crowd, such as a mother hitting her daughter numerous times, one often finds it extremely difficult to say or do something, as nobody else is. It is so easy to justify to oneself to just ignore it. In this situation, the author could easily have told himself that no one else is saying anything, so it must not be as awful a situation as he feels, or that even though he thinks it is wrong, it
