Woman is being beaten up/harassed/robbed - should you really get involved?

[TheWiseFool]

Ryan,

I think i might be getting a bit too deep here!

I personally enjoy these types of discussions. Everyone benefits in one way or another. It expands the mind and deepens or gifts us with new perspectives, even reminds us of ones we tend to forget.
- The Wise Fool

 

[Desert Eagle]

But I'd like to point something out, a fight is when two people are aware that they're both going to attack one another. Situations like these aren't fights, they are beatings/harrasment cases/ robbery cases.

If you were to read the entire post, you'll recall that I called out that a response like this would occur,

Now, I'm sure you're going to try and paint the situation up in a way where you would only intervene when you knew the specifics of the situation - where the woman was obviously a whole-hearted, kind person and the thief was a low-life scum.

I'm not a fan of painting people as evil. It is ridiculously easy to label someone as evil. Westboro Church? EVIL! Government? EVIL! It's based off no consideration and is used to justify your own personal bias.

alive and much wiser than a majority of my peers because of such things.

TheWiseFool, I invite you to look at a psychological phenomenon known as confirmation bias. You keep building yourself as some epic man in the midst of your own personal identity crisis, where you don't know what the hell to believe in. Everyone thinks they're smarter and wiser than everyone else. Takes a truly wise man to understand that he isn't smarter, nor wiser than anyone else in this world; he just has a different view of it.

 

[TheWiseFool]

I am going to walk away from this conversation simply because I don't need to prove myself to some random stranger on the internet... *walks away*

 

[Smurf]

I agree with Zphix. Isn't it part of what makes us human, the fact that we can help each other to the extent that we can? Even though I have no fighting experience, if I saw a woman getting beaten I'd try and at least diffuse the situation. There are ways to disarm people quickly/disable them. Things like Aikido do that. I feel it's your human responsibility to help someone in danger.

Jake.

 

[Nuncle]

"Diffusion of Responsibility" as mentioned above can be problematic - everyone convinces themself that everyone else will deal with it, with the result that no one does.

I have seen this in action, with fatal consequences (fatal to a dog, but I love dogs at least as much as humans).