Why No One Is Helping

So the makers of this video left some kid to freeze on the street for hours in order to conduct a "social experiment"?

They should be locked up.

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Our society has been taught that anyone in need is trash. The reason you see poor helping more more often is because they know first hand how hard it can be to maintain once certain circumstances hit. The rest? They think it can never happen to them and put the blame on the person it happened to. That keeps them safe. It keeps them from having to worry - or to feel guilt.

Another problem is when people see just too much of it. They get overwhelmed. It starts to seem that they can do nothing, or that anything they do will be moot. People learn to look away.

If you watch films of some of those African communities where children are dying in the streets, you'll see people step over them as if they don't even exist. How many had to get so bad off before people had to start to turn away for their own sanity? It didn't start that way.

We're going to see more and more of this as more and more people are pushed out into the streets. Only when we reach a tipping point and it becomes obvious to people who have never been without food on the table that it isn't the fault of the poor that people are becoming homeless will they question the people that are causing poverty instead of the impoverished. It will take some time, and a lot of people are going to die and suffer before that happens.

Unfortunately, part of it is also the fact some people are wary of scams. For example, I will not stop to help somebody change a tire. I've read too many times about the responder getting mugged or worse. I have a family and my responsibility is to them, not strangers.


Obviously, situations vary, but any time I do help a stranger, I'm on full alert with my situational awareness maximized. I'm sure some people refuse to help entirely for this reason alone.

I'm Mike now?


I guess Mike is close to Dan. I mean, the names have completely different numbers of characters and share absolutely none of the same letters. I can see how the mistake could be made.

Sometimes I think that people just don't believe a thing like this can happen right in front of their eyes. That someone could legitimately be in a desparate situation right out in plain view. We are so conditioned to not see these things in our day to day that our brain can't even register it.

Unfortunately too, these types of videos are becoming more common, so I wonder if people just think it's another hoax and avoid the interaction.

How about the guy that did help? What a great guy. Taking off your own coat in the cold to help someone else is a real sacrifice. And being homeless himself he gave the kid some money to get something to eat. It's easy to tell this guy has a great heart.

I think this is more of whether a person trusts easily or not. I remember one social experiment before of a guy asking for money, one where he is wearing tattered clothes and the other in a suit. People tend to give more to when he was wearing a suit. Its easier to help people when you know you are also safe.

Take MissTerraK for example, if when she helped the first one in Mercedes and it turned out a group of people where there and she got mugged. Would she help on the second instance that the same thing would happen?

Or if you see in a news of a new scam where people got pick pocketed while helping homeless people, would you still be willing to help homeless people that easily?

I admire those that are willing to put themselves out there and help other people, but it really isn't for everybody.

Well here's the thing.
People have enough on their plate. 99% will think even if you act nice to a strange kid someone will call the cops for pedophilia or something.

The camera man shot this for two hours when the kid was freezing to death? That's more disgusting than the mass not helping. But hats off to the man who helped. It was really touching.