Witness appalled by bystanders who videotaped aftermath of fatal crash in East Vancouver
Witness appalled by bystanders who videotaped aftermath of fatal crash in East Vancouver
The witness called 911 but then noticed people filming from the gas station across the street, some of the devices directed at the injured.
Everyone wants to be a social media influencer, I guess. This is really a reflection of where the money is going tbh.
Personally I wouldn't be too dismissive upfront. Relevant part of the article:
But the more charitable — and, Shariff believes, more accurate — view could be related to the bystander effect.
The well-studied theory posits that people are less likely to offer help if there are many other people around. It could be because they think other people are better-positioned to help, or because they do not know what to do in an unfamiliar situation and look to others for cues to the acceptable social response.
Compare a car crash today vs in the years before everyone had a globally-connected computer with an attached high-definition camera in their pocket. Back then horrific car crashes still happened, and what did the majority of bystanders also do back then? Just stood and watched.