Re:People with autism less likely to succumb to bystander ef...
by drewcoo on Monday October 30, 2023 @07:45AM
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> It's not sociopathy, it's more like 'wtf should I do'.
You're saying the difference is not in action but in intent.
I claim you can't truly know someone else's intent. Further, I don't think I'd trust a sociopath (ASPD) to tell me honestly what their intent is/was. So I don't understand the difference from an objective point of view.
Re:People with autism less likely to succumb to bystander ef...
by anigbrowl on Monday October 30, 2023 @07:59PM
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However when I met two people fighting each other in public, violently (blood and teeth), I was under a severe bystander effect I thought I wouldn't have
This is pretty rational actually, since you have no way of knowing who the instigator and who the victim (if any) is. A person who's been attacked for no reason will generally make it obvious, trying to escape or hang on property that's being taken from them or evincing other signs of distress. If you find two people actively going at each other and there isn't an obvious underdog, it's probably best not to intervene physically.
I passed a weird certification in highschool to learn how to deal with injuries and dangerous situations (car crash, someone passing out in public) and so far it helped twice. Each time the other helpers had the same (or similar) training I did.
However when I met two people fighting each other in public, violently (blood and teeth), I was under a severe bystander effect I thought I wouldn't have (because I had good reactions to dangerous situations in the past).
For me at least, this effect is more about how prepared you are, a sort of default state, not something bad.