Uncategorized | Thursday, 6/5/08 at 8:20pm

Heartless

This is absolutely scary. So picture yourself walking down the streets of GW in the middle of the afternoon…

As you cross the street from Kogan to the Marvin Center a car speeds out of nowhere and clips you leaving you helpless on the ground…

Far from stopping in shock the driver continues on and speeds away…

Now heres the scary part… What if in the middle of the afternoon with all those people around nobody stops to help you! Thats right… people stop and gawk, cars drive by, and even a person on a motorized scooter purposely turns around you to head on up the street.

Now your saying to yourself this would never happen, someone would stop and help, get out the cellphone, check if your ok. Well the scary part of this story is that it actually happened, not in DC but in Hartford, Connecticut. Thats right an elderly person was crossing the street when they got hit by a car and it ran off. Luckily for Angel Arce Torres there was a traffic cam, because not ONE person stopped to help him. Nobody.

Now I don’t know about you but that scares me. Has our society degraded so much as to become completely cold towards other human life? Could this happen in DC, New York, San Francisco, or LA? If you got in a bad car accident back home wouldn’t SOMEBODY stop by and help you? I think Hartford just got the award for the coldest place in the country to live… and I’m not talking about the temperature.

Tip of the Hat to AP for this story:
Video shows bystanders ignoring hit-and-run victim

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Meredith says:

June 6, 2008 at 2:01 am

it's called diffusion of responsibility. it's not that people are particularly heartless, but it's that they think somebody else should help/is already helping. it's not that uncommon, and it's not new. while many ills can be contributed to the decline and/or failure of society/humankind as a whole, i don't think this is one of them.
GW South says:

June 6, 2008 at 6:22 pm

I like the "liberals" tag.Meredith – I accidentally took a Psychology Class 2nd semester Freshman year, and I learned something about this. There is the diffusion of responsibiltiy, but it's also another thing. When you're in the city, you see thousands of people every day. Thus, people began to blend in, and aren't regarded as people so much as they are as logs, or plants or rocks. You simply register them as part of the environment. For those who live in villages and in the country, you see far less people. Thus, these people do not register others as simply part of the scenery, but as actual people. There was some research done on this. One of the studies they had a guy basically collapse in the middle of the street during the day. In the village, people immideately reacted, where as in the city people just continued to walk by.
PoliticalPulse says:

June 7, 2008 at 6:42 am

so gw south's example somehow explains why all new yorkers are jerks? (jk… kinda)

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