everyone waits, looks around
no one helps - she dies.
Today's Poem: A Haiku
Today's inspiration: In his book Influence: Science and Practice, Robert Cialdini documents an intriguing social phenomenon in which people, in the face of uncertainty, look around for social evidence and confirmation on how to behave correctly. Finding none, they act in ways that appear irrational.
In one story dating back to March 1964, 38 citizens in Queens, NY watched, for more than half an hour, a killer stab a woman during three separate attacks. No one called the police during that time. The 38 witnesses cannot explain why they had failed to act. Psychologists speculate that everyone had felt uncertain about the woman's emergency, and seeing that no other observers were taking action, reasoned that perhaps the woman's situation was not an emergency after all.
