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without feeling the same moral responsibility. This analysis has explained
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why people don't always help others in need.
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If there's a group, responsibility to help decreases
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and this is captured in different ways
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but the main idea is we all think someone else will help so we don't.
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There's a diffusion. This just summarizes some studies--
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some famous studies supporting this. And the classic example,
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which is discussed in detail in the textbook, is the Kitty Genovese case
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where somebody was murdered in the common lot
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that apartment buildings surrounded while dozens of people watched,
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dozens of good, normal people watched and did nothing.
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If there's some advice I've heard on this, which is pretty good advice: