In the world, there are lots of people who are bystanders and there are people who are morally courageous. “Should I help, or should I just walk away?” Everyone has had this question cross their mind at least once. How someone reacts to situations determines if they are a morally courageous people or a bystander. Some people stand up and respond to crisis situations, while others remain bystanders because the people who stand up belive that it is wrong and they want to help and the people are bystanders are afraid of what will happen to them if they stand up.
Being a bystander means that you do not respond, stand up, or take part in an event or incident. In the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, a little boy named Bruno becomes friends with a young jewish boy …show more content…
Bruno gives Shmall a piece of food, he eats it, and then a soldier comes into the room.
The soldier became mad at Shmall for eating the food and when the soldier ask Bruno if he gave hime the food, he says he did not give him the food (Herman). Bruno did not stand up for his new friend and because he did not stand up, Shmall had been punished for something he did not do. Bruno was scared of what would happen to him if the soldier found out that he gave Shmall the food. In the poem “The Hangman”, a hangman comes into a town and comes to hang a person. He ends up hanging a lot of people, but only because no one stood up to him the townsperson said: “‘Dead,’ I whispered: and amiably/‘Murdered,’ the Hangman correctedme:/‘First the alien, then the Jew.../I did no more than you let me do’” (Ogden 4.29-32). The man was the only person left and there was no one to stand up for him. The Hangman only did what he let him do. He did not stand up for the wrong thing the Hangman was doing, so he had to pay the price (being dead). Being afraid of what will happen to you if you stand up for something will make you a bystander.
Being a morally courageous person means standing up or responding to crisis
Being a bystander means that you do not respond, stand up, or take part in an event or incident. In the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, a little boy named Bruno becomes friends with a young jewish boy …show more content…
Bruno gives Shmall a piece of food, he eats it, and then a soldier comes into the room.
The soldier became mad at Shmall for eating the food and when the soldier ask Bruno if he gave hime the food, he says he did not give him the food (Herman). Bruno did not stand up for his new friend and because he did not stand up, Shmall had been punished for something he did not do. Bruno was scared of what would happen to him if the soldier found out that he gave Shmall the food. In the poem “The Hangman”, a hangman comes into a town and comes to hang a person. He ends up hanging a lot of people, but only because no one stood up to him the townsperson said: “‘Dead,’ I whispered: and amiably/‘Murdered,’ the Hangman correctedme:/‘First the alien, then the Jew.../I did no more than you let me do’” (Ogden 4.29-32). The man was the only person left and there was no one to stand up for him. The Hangman only did what he let him do. He did not stand up for the wrong thing the Hangman was doing, so he had to pay the price (being dead). Being afraid of what will happen to you if you stand up for something will make you a bystander.
Being a morally courageous person means standing up or responding to crisis