'Help me'
If somebody said this to you, would you help them, or would you turn away and pretend you didn't hear them? Would you message them or would you scroll past and ignore them?
Psychology and many studies have shown that you would ignore someone in need of your help. It can be through the diffusion of responsibility, where you believe that someone else will do something to help that person, or it can be through pluralistic ignorance, when you think 'if no one is helping then why should I?'
But when is this ever okay? Someone is very clearly in need of your help and you're happy to just let them suffer? Put yourself in their situation, then act.
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