Human beings have reached a point in time where the common person has become an enemy. The down side of this is that we are reluctant to help out someone that seems to be in danger because of what psychologists have dubbed, "The Kitty Genovese Syndrome." This basically means that humans tend to avoid an emergency because of 1. previous experience 2. risk of physical injury, or 3. avoiding legal consequences. While not everyone is, understandably, in the position to perform CPR or pull someone from a crashed car, it is truly sad when humans can see someone in dire need and not make any attempt to even call for help.
Kitty Genovese was a 28 year old woman that was attacked outside her Long Island Home around 3:20 a.m. The attacker stabbed her, ran away, and then returned three more times to stab her again between 3:20 and 3:50. Genovese yelled toward open apartment windows many times that she had been stabbed and that she was dying. Police later reported that at least 38 people had witnessed at least one of the attacks, yet no phone call to the police was made until 3:50, after Genovese was already dead. The police later said, "If we had been called when he first attacked, this woman might not be dead now." I feel that this story speaks for itself.
Human beings have reached a point in time where the common person has become an enemy. The down side of this is that we are reluctant to help out someone that seems to be in danger because of what psychologists have dubbed, "The Kitty Genovese Syndrome." This basically means that humans tend to avoid an emergency because of 1. previous experience 2. risk of physical injury, or 3. avoiding legal consequences. While not everyone is, understandably, in the position to perform CPR or pull someone from a crashed car, it is truly sad when humans can see someone in dire need and not make any attempt to even call for help. Kitty Genovese was a 28 year old woman that was attacked outside her Long Island Home around 3:20 a.m. The attacker stabbed her, ran away, and then returned three more times to stab her again between 3:20 and 3:50. Genovese yelled toward open apartment windows many times that she had been stabbed and that she was dying. Police later reported that at least 38 people had witnessed at least one of the attacks, yet no phone call to the police was made until 3:50, after Genovese was already dead. The police later said, "If we had been called when he first attacked, this woman might not be dead now." I feel that this story speaks for itself.
-Jeff