Why Do People Abolish The Bystander Effect?

On April 18, 2010 at around 5:30 AM, Hugo Alfred Tale-Yax, a homeless man, was stabbed multiple times by a mugger when trying to help a woman who was about to be the mugger’s victim. He collapsed to the floor and lay there until he died from major blood loss even though about twenty people had walked by that hour (cite). Why would the people just walk by and not at least ask if the man was doing okay? A social psychological phenomenon in which individuals do not assist a victim when others are around, known as the Bystander Effect, is what keeps most people in cases such as the case of Hugo Alfred Tale-Yax from helping or getting involved. The reason for people not assisting when others are present is the result of wanting to conform. Other people’s behavior is accepted by others which in turn creates a standard to which all of the people present abide by without even speaking to each other. They do it just because everyone else is doing it. A law would somewhat reduce the amount of people who become bystanders, but it would not completely abolish the Bystander Effect. A law cannot prevent something that happens as the result of our natural human …show more content…
Kids would begin the understand why it’s wrong to just let others be in danger because it does not involve them and how everyone is equal. As a result, when these children grow up, they will be overall better people and they will themselves try to influence others and their children. Children will begin to see the world at a different point of view then they would if they only see the good parts of real life at their early age. Additionally, having people learn what is morally correct early in their life will contribute to less immoral actions. People will not only not do these immoral actions just because it is “wrong,” but they will know why it is