Whould you help stop bullying?

This reminds me of that bus driver video... a lot people walked past the woman who was going about to jump. Kudos to the people who tried to help the guy on this video tho, shame on the vast majority that didn't!

 

Apathy is the only word which comes to my mind. But then today world is so different and moves so fast that we hardly have time for fellow humans. We have to get everywhere in a hurry. Life is hurry..

Hurry is not a bad thing in itself, but when hurry makes us lesser Humans than it definitely is a sad thing.

 

Yeah, I noticed there was a better response by the individuals that were on their own! But the ones that were in a group... didn't seem to care less. It was so strange! I also noticed that, I mean, one would think it would be the opposite, right?

By the way, thanks for doing that I once stopped a girl from bullying another girl when I was going to elementary school. I was severely bullied when I was going to kinder garden, the first few years of elementary school and throughout my entire junior high years. So I know the feeling! Uhm, now that I think about it... no one ever helped me.

 

Perhaps those persons are just like my friend. She says to have been bullied throughout the different stages of her education and starting at kindergarten!

So that, she says that bullying is not new and if she suffered from this action, she is glad to see other suffer too and don't care to do anything about it.

She knows that I'm respectful with each one's thoughts, but what else can I do? I know she won't change.

 

There's a term where individuals are influenced by groups so if more people helped then even more people would join in. Even though some people wanted to help but seeing that the majority isn't doing anything will affect these people too. I can't seem to remember what this behaviour is called, someone care to help me?

 

I have never been beaten or bullied at school, but at home I have experienced being beaten up, so to be honest, if I meddle in such scenes, then I might be the one getting beaten up, who knows right? So I would not personally interfere, but I would seek the help of a nearby security guard to help the bullied person.

 

I probably would have walked away as well in most of those incidents, not because I'm apathetic towards bullying, but because the guy doing the "bullying" seemed like a wuss himself. It came across more like two attention hungry douche bags getting into an argument in public, not a case of someone getting bullied, imo. I appreciate their experiment though, and what they were trying to accomplish - but I think their bad acting skewed the results.

 

I couldn't agree more with, James... I was bullied a lot during my school years... so much it made me hate going to school. But there is no way I could ever feel glad to see someone suffer, no matter what the reason is. If I could I would help, as long as my life isn't at risk by doing so (that'd be a bit crazy). I mean, if I see a kid bothering another kid... or a teen... or an abussive adult at a campus, there is no way I can just walk away and forget that! I'm quite neurotic actually, so if I did nothing... I'd surely think about that a lot!!! I'd feel really bad for a long time.

 

I can kind of relate to what she's thinking though. Perhaps she's just more thick skinned these days and when she sees some people getting so up in arms over the littlest incidents. Sure, it hurts when someone blatantly disrespects you and tries to talk down to you, but you can't live in a bubble thinking everyone is going to be nice to you 24/7. Those smaller incidents stop having an effect after a while and are more like water off a ducks back.

 

If the bullies are small kids people are quicker to help than if they are teens or older. I believe that more would help but are just in fear of what may happen to them since people like to retaliate. However, I believe that if you feel endangered then you should at least get someone who can help.