The Bystander Effect In The Incredibles

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In the movie The Incredibles, the movie shows the protagonist (Mr. Incredible) helping people in need throughout his home city of Metroville before he’s off to marry another Super like himself, Elastigirl (supporting character in the movie). Although, shortly before he gets married, a man appeared to be standing on the top of a skyscraper with the intent to jump off. With many other civilians watching and even a helicopter hovering above the man, Mr. Incredible catches him falling and crashes into the skyscraper, saving the man. After some time though, the man is revealed to have not wanted to be saved and coincidentally, suffered many major injuries from his rescue. Along with other civilians who have suffered through the same thing, they …show more content…
Yet why is it that when we see a person in trouble, we often do not help them even though it is the right thing to do? The reason why is because of a term coined the “Bystander Effect.” The Bystander Effect, or bystander apathy, is a social psychological phenomenon that refers to cases in which individuals fail to offer aid or assistance to a victim when other people are present. An example of this is the story of a two year old girl in China who was ran over multiple times and left for dead by several bystanders who saw her and deliberately did not do anything about it (“China Wonders”). Indifference is one of the many great problems about our whole species. Elie Wiesel, author of the novel Night, argues that indifference makes the humanity within a person become inhuman. The indifference within the multiple apathetic people that walked by the dying two-year old girl in China is an example of the inhumanity within people. If a Good Samaritan Law is passed, it would help these kinds of accidents to cease, but by this law being in effect, it would only force and not teach us how to be good humans. We can all learn to become respectable and helpful people. We cannot be forced to be good and …show more content…
A law would not be nearly enough to prevent the Bystander Effect. People think that a Good Samaritan Law will completely abolish many incidents like “The Killing of Kitty Genovese” from happening when it only makes the chances of it occurring lower. In fact, any law will not completely stop what the law is preventing from taking place. For example, a man brought a minor home with him and decided to rape her while his colleague was live-streaming it on the app Periscope. (Kingkade) The man and cameraman were charged with “rape, kidnapping, and pandering sexually oriented materials involving a minor.” Throughout this whole incident, there were three laws
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