Ryan Halligan's The Killing Of Kitty Genovese
Ryan Halligan, took his life October 7th, 2003 due to being bullied for years —tormented because he could never reach the average grade for his classes. He came from a special ed class and he was called “gay” when he fought his bully. This situation went on from fifth to seventh grade, yet no one decided to help. Bullies are like criminals to other kids, so if your kid was getting bullied wouldn't you want someone to help? In addition, here in the real world we have muggers, rapists, thieves, and killers. So many witnesses do nothing, I think we should do something; we need a Good Samaritans law.
As a human, how can you be so depraved as to just pass someone in need? It is done every single day. You may say that it is none of your business …show more content…
Conformity in the sense that we are cowards, we do not want to be the outcast and be labeled “weird” so we will let people be endangered because we don't want to break the “norm” of society and maybe even take a picture of them and walk away to our normal everyday lives. In this case, “The Killing of Kitty Genovese” by Michael Dorman unfortunately can relate; a young woman was stabbed repeatedly as 38 bystanders witnessed the incident and did nothing, it took an hour for someone to call. Kitty bled out in the meantime as everyone stared and the poor woman screeched for help.
The bystander effect is a real thing and it takes a toll on people everyday, everywhere, all around the world.
Moreover, you might get hurt while trying to help another in need, you never know what will happen, you might be scared, or just too busy to help. You can call, but what if you do not have a phone? Well have the nearest place around you call for help. If there are no places around you then I assume you can either help or not. However statistics say that you are more likely to help if less people are around so therefore, you will probably help so if you look at all the options there is no right minded scenario to not
As a human, how can you be so depraved as to just pass someone in need? It is done every single day. You may say that it is none of your business …show more content…
Conformity in the sense that we are cowards, we do not want to be the outcast and be labeled “weird” so we will let people be endangered because we don't want to break the “norm” of society and maybe even take a picture of them and walk away to our normal everyday lives. In this case, “The Killing of Kitty Genovese” by Michael Dorman unfortunately can relate; a young woman was stabbed repeatedly as 38 bystanders witnessed the incident and did nothing, it took an hour for someone to call. Kitty bled out in the meantime as everyone stared and the poor woman screeched for help.
The bystander effect is a real thing and it takes a toll on people everyday, everywhere, all around the world.
Moreover, you might get hurt while trying to help another in need, you never know what will happen, you might be scared, or just too busy to help. You can call, but what if you do not have a phone? Well have the nearest place around you call for help. If there are no places around you then I assume you can either help or not. However statistics say that you are more likely to help if less people are around so therefore, you will probably help so if you look at all the options there is no right minded scenario to not