I wonder if the bystander response would be the same outside these major metropolitan areas? I also wonder if people are less likely to assist if the perp is black, fearing backlash - the whole “calling 911 against blacks is racist” thing? Or maybe a combo of that and the rampant soft racism prevalent amongst progressives - “those poor …
I wonder if the bystander response would be the same outside these major metropolitan areas? I also wonder if people are less likely to assist if the perp is black, fearing backlash - the whole “calling 911 against blacks is racist” thing? Or maybe a combo of that and the rampant soft racism prevalent amongst progressives - “those poor black folks couldn’t possibly act any other way because of all the historical racism...” I have a hard time believing that the bystander issue is a widespread issue or encompasses the whole of American culture. Is it possible that progressive culture breeds this sort of malaise? Could the ideology of massive government institutions erode our sense of self determination? After all, there’s a government office or system that’s designed to handle this sort of thing, right? Or so they believe. I don’t know, but it’s curious, and incredibly disturbing. There’s so many instances of violence in NYC that we’ve seen since that town’s COVID meltdown. Recall the lady on the subway that had her child punched in the face. No bystander intervened there as well. And so many others. Or course, this also begs the question, with what means do you intervene? It’s very easy to be disgusted by remote viewing of a video. But the reality of physical intervention is that you must assume that it could lead to your own life and death struggle. And that becomes very apparent in the midst of the violence, when you’re there and you can see and feel the rage. Dare I say that most modern cosmopolitan individuals have few useful tools to deal with a life and death physical struggle. Most people don’t. And sans a firearm, well, your intervention would then require a guarantee of assistance from the other bystanders. It’s hard to truly say you have self determination if you’ve surrender your ability to exercise it. We may be far to reliant on systems that are bound to fail or that are bound to rob us of our liberty under the guise of protecting us. We want to feel as though we’re protected or that we’ve established a benevolent force of good. It makes those of us that are wealthy or pathetic feel better about our environment. But feeling better doesn’t mean anything of real value has been achieved. Yet again and again when these systems fail, or when “crime happens” we hear the chant that “there should be some sort of law against that..” this mindset - the decades of this culture that demands a technocrat solve our problems- relieves us of our responsibility as citizens. Next thing you know we’re all sitting on a subway watching a crazy person punch a baby, afraid to intervene for a myriad of reasons, but mostly just afraid and maybe glad it’s not us.
I wonder if the bystander response would be the same outside these major metropolitan areas? I also wonder if people are less likely to assist if the perp is black, fearing backlash - the whole “calling 911 against blacks is racist” thing? Or maybe a combo of that and the rampant soft racism prevalent amongst progressives - “those poor black folks couldn’t possibly act any other way because of all the historical racism...” I have a hard time believing that the bystander issue is a widespread issue or encompasses the whole of American culture. Is it possible that progressive culture breeds this sort of malaise? Could the ideology of massive government institutions erode our sense of self determination? After all, there’s a government office or system that’s designed to handle this sort of thing, right? Or so they believe. I don’t know, but it’s curious, and incredibly disturbing. There’s so many instances of violence in NYC that we’ve seen since that town’s COVID meltdown. Recall the lady on the subway that had her child punched in the face. No bystander intervened there as well. And so many others. Or course, this also begs the question, with what means do you intervene? It’s very easy to be disgusted by remote viewing of a video. But the reality of physical intervention is that you must assume that it could lead to your own life and death struggle. And that becomes very apparent in the midst of the violence, when you’re there and you can see and feel the rage. Dare I say that most modern cosmopolitan individuals have few useful tools to deal with a life and death physical struggle. Most people don’t. And sans a firearm, well, your intervention would then require a guarantee of assistance from the other bystanders. It’s hard to truly say you have self determination if you’ve surrender your ability to exercise it. We may be far to reliant on systems that are bound to fail or that are bound to rob us of our liberty under the guise of protecting us. We want to feel as though we’re protected or that we’ve established a benevolent force of good. It makes those of us that are wealthy or pathetic feel better about our environment. But feeling better doesn’t mean anything of real value has been achieved. Yet again and again when these systems fail, or when “crime happens” we hear the chant that “there should be some sort of law against that..” this mindset - the decades of this culture that demands a technocrat solve our problems- relieves us of our responsibility as citizens. Next thing you know we’re all sitting on a subway watching a crazy person punch a baby, afraid to intervene for a myriad of reasons, but mostly just afraid and maybe glad it’s not us.