Re:If no-one helps you after a car crash in India, this is why
by adrianN on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @10:02AM
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Your comment would be much nicer without that first sentence.
Re:If no-one helps you after a car crash in India, this is why
by po on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @10:20AM
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Didn't know it was in question, added a link to snopes.
> Blaming people because of bystanders effect is poor form.
My point, perhaps poorly made, was also that the larger societal incentives are to blame. Many people respond as we would hope. In the aggregate, people tend to respond to the pressures applied to them.
http://www.snopes.com/chinese-drivers-kill-pedestrians/
In a country of 1 billion+ people you'll always get these stories.
Since as we know, we get in them in the west as well, the media will drum up, child left to die by road.
When we all know the drivers just didn't seem them or didn't know what happened. But that's a crappy story.
People help people in obvious severe immediate need and take risks doing it. It's human nature.
They get bystanders effect and sometimes they won't know they are in severe immediate need (A sleeping homeless person vs someone unconscious) but they don't ignore them because they will be sued.
Blaming people because of bystanders effect is poor form.