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> The more crowded our environment gets, the more we feel that helping someone in need is someone else’s problem This reminded me of the Murder of Kitty Genove
by kaycebasques 9y ago
> The more crowded our environment gets, the more we feel that helping someone in need is someone else’s problem
This reminded me of the Murder of Kitty Genovese, AKA the Bystander Effect. However, I just looked it up, and it sounds like recently researchers have questioned the validity of the original story, claiming that NYT exaggerated the number of witnesses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese