Ordinary people come across dangerous situations everyday. Many would think that if one witnessed a dangerous or harmful situation they would call 9-1-1 for help but most just act as if nothing had ever happened, this is called bystander apathy. Bystander apathy is very common in the sense that is if a teenager asked for help in a larger crowd of people, not many people would of assisted him in that matter.` Night is a narrative by Elie Weisel and his experiences during the Holocaust; "Gang rape raises question about bystander role " by Stephanie Chen CNN, and "The Perils of Obedience,"" by Stanley Milgram are just few of man many examples on bystander apathy. Situations likes these define what bystander apathy is and why it is important to know what to do when confronted by a persons ones suffering.
"The Perils of Obedience"" was many different experiments based on the same idea, what will the subject due when told by a higher authority to keep going along with the experiment although they subject knows that the victim in extreme pain. In one experiment the test subject was named Brandt was asking a series of questions to the victim, when the answer was wrong she was to give a shock, every time an answer was wrong Brandt would increase the amount of pain in the shock. .
Brandt could not see the victim but could only hear cries, which was actually a recorded voice in another room. When Brandt, they test subject of the experiment, realizes that the victim being electrocuted had a heart condition, she said that "we {should not} continue " ("Perils of Obedience "). Although she could not see the victim she refused not to continue because she could hear the cries from the victim. The experimenter tried to explain that she needed to continue the experiment but Brandt refused. Brandy understands that the electrocution can bring pain and danger to the victim. Knowing this, she did not want to continue the experiment; she was being responsible of the victim suffering.