Honestly, the bystander effect bothers me. But not the very act of it. I mean the concept of the "bystander effect," the idea that if you're not sacrificing yourself to help someone else, you're a clinical psychopath. What if the situation is simply too dangerous to intervene? I hate this culture of unconditional sacrifice for the collective, all while everyone complains about supposed hyperindividualism. I guess it's easy to call it individualistic if anything less than heroic sacrifice is seen as cowardice to you. I recently saw a facebook comment from a mom claiming her daughter had a duty to help others and it didn't matter if she got mutilated in the process. what the actual fuck!?
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