39 Who Saw Murder

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Thirty-nine Who Saw Murderers In the story “Thirty-eight who saw murder didn’t call the police” by Martin Gansberg is exactly what the title states. Thirty-eight people witnessed a murder or heard a woman getting brutally murdered and did nothing to save her life. These individuals had about three chances and didn’t do a single thing because they all had something more important like being tired or afraid. The murderer benefitted by the lack of intelligence of these people they scared him away a couple of times but when he saw they didn’t come down to help her or actually call the police he proceeded with the murder. We need to stop being so out of focus with what’s going on in our life’s and take a second to help some who is actually in need. Gansberg intended for us the readers to realize how blind we can be with what’s going around us. The people in the text could have saved this poor woman’s life. They were to ignorant to see that their actions killed her, by not calling the police. One man went as far as yelling out the window to leave the woman alone thee proceed to do what he was doing before. I totally disagree with this because I know if I was in this situation I would want someone to help by at least calling the police. One call could save a life and it scares me to know how ignorant people can be in a situation like this. We have to stop going along with what the crowd is doing and do the right thing. This is a typical example of the bystander affect, we see something is wrong but we proceed with what we are doing since no one else is doing anything about it. Everyone knew something bad was happening but no one stopped and actually did something about it. The witnesses brushed it off and hoped for someone else to step up and help the woman and nobody did. I have witnessed the bystander affect all the time. I have seen many homeless people

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