A Poets View

After watching the abc7 news show What Would You Do? with John Quinones last evening I came away with some questions for myself.

The show depicts scenarios which may conjure up mixed emotions for those watching the scenes take place.   The message of the show is basically dependent upon how everyday people react to these scenarios.

Last evening there were four different scenes taking place.  The show uses actors and hidden cameras.  The first scenario was a baby locked in a car on a hot day.  Don’t worry, a doll was used and an audio of a baby crying.  Many people walked by the car and noticed the baby however didn’t know what to do.  Many just walked past.  However there were some who called 911 and did get involved.  The same scenario was staged using a dog.  Not as many people became involved but there were heroes in this scenario as well.

Another scene was a single woman in a bar being harassed by an obnoxious guy.  Almost everyone became involved and tried to protect the woman.

Last scene was a Mother with her daughter and her daughter’s Nanny in a cafe with the Mother berating the Nanny.  Again, remember these are all actors in the scenes, many people became involved trying to protect the Nanny.

Through all of these scenarios I asked myself what I would do and found that in the first three I would have the same reactions and would call 911 for the baby and the dog.  I would also get involved with the guy harassing the woman at the bar.  However in the last scenario, even though it disgusts me to see someone berated in public I don’t think I would do anything.  I felt bad that I would not intervene but somehow getting involved in a domestic type situation, even though it was publicly displayed seemed wrong to me.  Mind you if there were violence involved I would definitely get in there any help but I found myself disturbed over this situation.

I’m wondering, what you would do? 

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