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I didn't read it that way. To me the article was not a feel good story about heroic passers-by. It was about the mechanisms of spontaneous coordination of a cro
by bloat 11y ago
I didn't read it that way. To me the article was not a feel good story about heroic passers-by. It was about the mechanisms of spontaneous coordination of a crowd of people in a shocking situation. Whether they did the right thing or not is not really the point of the article - it's more interested in why they did anything at all.
- m-i-l 11y agoThat's how I read it too. The article didn't say whether the person under the bus benefited from, or suffered extra as a result of, the actions of the crowd. But rather it was how an exception to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect can arise.
- morpheous 11y agoOk. let me put it this way. If it was YOU under the bus, would you appreciate it if the bus was lifted off you? Funny how when I put it like that - suddenly the answer becomes "obvious" to you. It's cold blooded "logical" (to an extreme) people like you that are often a menace to society.