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title: The Bystander Effect
created: 2025-01-23T10:40:57
modified: 2025-10-17T06:29:15
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= Bystander Apathy

**“Let someone help, not me.”** [@philpotWouldBeHelped2020]
* [People are less likely to help someone in need when other people are present.](https://sketchplanations.com/the-bystander-effect)

Poem: _Everybody Somebody Anybody and Nobody_

> This is a story about four people named _Everybody_, _Somebody_, _Anybody and Nobody_.
>
> There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.
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> Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
>
> Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job.
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> Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it.
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> It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
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> — Charles R. Swindoll

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