One of the most disgusting things I've ever seen. Options

[Hellfighter]

Ok, be forewarned this is a vid of a hit and run vic- he didn't die but is paralyzed.
The next sickening thing to the actual hit/ and the driver racing away, is the reaction of the bystanders.
I'm judging most of you are action people that help strangers in situations where others prefer to just stand in a crowd gazing at the situation without making any effort to intercede;
This is about the worse case of such morons..... take your pick- cars driving by the struck victim or people just standing yards away simply looking at the victim...... sickening case of human uselessness.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3s4zAh3-HEE

[Genocide Junkie]

I saw a program a while back that discussed group dynamics. They would set up a situation where they had 2 people together and they would simulate some sort of emergency. Then they would do the same experiment with a group of 5 or more. For example the subjects were sitting in a room taking a survey or something like that and they began to pump smoke into the room. When it was 1-2 people in the room they immediately got up and went to get help. When it was a group they all looked around at each other looking to see what if anything someone was going to do. It was very interesting. They showed all sorts of stuff including an experiment where they put a group of people in a "jail" and randomly made some the guards and some the inmates. After a couple of days the guards were basically torturing the inmates even though it could have just as easily been them in the other position.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

One other thing about what I saw... they did another one where one guy was set up in a room with an electric shock machine. In the next an actor would "respond" when the button was pushed for increasingly greater and greater electric shock. The meter on the machine said warning extremely dangerous etc as it got to higher levels. As it got worse and worse the person who was suppose to be administering the shock would try to back out asking if the man was ok. However, the professor or person in charge of instructing the person administering the shock would tell them they must continue the experiment. Even at levels that literally sounded like the other guy was dying, pleading for their lives, and then even after there were no more sounds from the other room a huge percentage of the people would continue to administer what they believed to be electric shock to the person in the other room.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

What this taught me is that no matter how morally sound I might think I am I don't know what I'd do in a given situation. These people were average decent people just like the rest of us and this really was disturbing. We can tell ourselves that we wouldn't react like those guys in the video but the reality is people are f'd up. Even most of us when in those situations. I wish I knew where I had seen that. Discovery or Nat Geo or something like that I'm sure. The dynamics of group think and obedience is quite interesting. This is just a portion of the things they showed and talked about but it certainly gives insight into how people can sit by and watch (or even participate) as horrific things take place.