^there you go, im 25 and im fully aware that 12 year old with a blade can pose a serious problem, he can kill you if your unlucky. bring back the old days where we used our fist or worst case scenario the Jdrama style metal poles >.< Gokusen ftw
12 year old?? I was actually thinking of calling the police but i was too scared.He knew where i live and he could easily take revenge...
^ yup i fully understand what you mean, you gota make sure your family is not put in harms way, thats your first priority.
yeah and i'm really thankful the girl wasn't killed...My conscience is clean..As the region where i live is badly reputed,i'm sure it won't be the last time i will have to choose saving the person or not
Sad though.. where numbers don't count anymore and not even one would venture to help. I believe that there is an innate ability for us to be Samaritans in all of us right in our soul. Just that the prevailing cynicism and "reality" have took a heavy hit at us to tarnish that altogether...
depending on the situation, if you're incapable of saving someone, then dont do it. it might turn out even worse
For those of you who mentioned that saving someone might put yourself at risk, this is true. Something happened to a guy who tried to save a stranger from muggers but in the process got stabbed, In the end the muggers got away with it. This goes to show its unpredictable.
You should have made an anonymous call to the police: eg. Hello, Police emergency? I''ve just witnessed a girl being assaulted by a man at the residence located at abc, please send help right away; no I do not care to leave my name, but she needs help badly, goodby (and hang up). What this does is, sends him a powerful message that there are people in the neighborhood who would not only NOT condone his sort of behavior towards women, but who would call the police on him immediately. He does not need to ever know it was you. -detect
i did this in Psychology... Obviously it depends on the situation and stuff... But like duno if u heard about this case study about this lady which is pretty extreme... (Can't remember her name) But basically... She was gettin attacked or whateverrr down a street... Many people were in their houses at the time and heard it but did nothing... She was murdered... And no one helped her They all confessed they heard it but simply said... 'I thought someone else would have done something' Basically they think that intervening behaviour depends on whether ur with people or not... So ur more likely to help someone if u were alone They put this down to 'the diffusion of responsbility' So when there are loads of u... And u dont intervene and something 'bad' happens or whatever... The responsibility of not doin anything is 'shared' between u so individual 'level' of responsibility is not as high than it would be if u were the only person there capable of helping... So yeh... I mean other factors need to be taken into account such as the type of situation the capability ect ect... But generally its highly influenced by the number of people present in intervening behaviour ^^
Wow...reading this post kinda made me sad. I guess the statistics are true. As for me, I certainly don't think I have the power to stop a crime from happening. But I think I would call 911 and to find a sturdy weapon and scare the attacker away because most of the time, they would be afraid of being recognized by a second person. Because WHAT IF you could save the person? WHAT IF? Regarding the domestic violence situation, if I heard all that, I would definitely help in that case. One phone call can save a life. You don't want to wait it out to find out whether she was killed or not! How would you feel if she was killed? But that's just me.
