All crimes are committed with the tacit consent of the indifferent. Julius Fucik (Czech)

Class hour "Indifference"

"People! Beware of the indifferent - it is with their tacit consent that all the most terrible crimes in the world occur!”

Julius Fucik (Czechoslovakian journalist, literary and theater critic)

Group SZ-21

Date 03/29/2013

Goal: to form the correct attitude towards such a human condition as indifference, develop everyone's own view on this problem.

Preliminary preparation: form three groups

Necessary materials: Film, cards with sayings.

Equipment: computer, projector, board.

Progress of the class hour:

Good afternoon, my dear guys! Today I would like to talk to you about indifference and, as a consequence, cruelty.

As Bruno Yasensky once said, do not be afraid of enemies - in the worst case, they can kill you. Don't be afraid of your friends - in the worst case, they can betray you. Be afraid of the indifferent - they do not kill or betray, but only with their tacit consent does betrayal and murder exist on earth!
The idea that characterizes our society. It has never been distinguished by its special humanity and desire for someone help. Although there have always been some people who are not indifferent to the misfortune of others, there are, unfortunately, more indifferent people. Russian students conducted an experiment. Twelve times they “robbed” a figurehead in the subway, eight times they even took off the guy’s shoes. Experiment results shocking: only once did a woman timidly say: “Why did you take the shoes?” Many similar ones crimes is done daily. And who is to blame? In my opinion, it is an indifferent society that is responsible for such incidents. Are people not in a hurry to help, fearing that the criminal will harm them too? Maybe. But, rather, they think that this cannot happen to them. And once they find themselves in the role of a victim, they sincerely wonder why society is so cruel and indifferently. What is happening to us? Sometimes those who would like to help do not do so only because people say: “Do you need it more than anyone else?” or simply afraid of judgment and sidelong glances.

Information from the dictionary “Indifference is the state of an indifferent person, indifferent, devoid of interest, passive attitude towards the environment.”

Please tell me synonyms for the word indifference (indifference, passivity, apathy)

I bring to your attention the film, after watching which we will try to find out why this happens.

Film (6 minutes).

I. Group assignment (10 minutes):

Give reasons for this behavior

What could have been done to change the situation?

II. Group assignment (10 minutes):

Cards with statements about indifference, give your explanation

III. Group assignment (10 minutes). Give an analysis of the situation.

Situation 1

Situation 2.

Situation 3.

The dictionary says that cruelty is a human feeling that does not know pity, regret, or sympathy. This is the ability to cause suffering to people or animals.

Cruelty is always the result of fear, weakness and cowardice. (Helvetius)

Cruelty is the product of an evil mind and often a cowardly heart. (L. Aristo)

Cruelty always stems from heartlessness and weakness. (Seneca)

Never be afraid To help people! This is the only way we can remain Humans, and not just creatures. Only by improving ourselves do we improve society. Seeing the good deeds and actions of others, perhaps the hearts of indifferent. And then we will stop being afraid that no one will come to our aid.

(Feedback)
And now I ask each of you to name what you liked or didn’t like, what new things you learned and whether you need it.

Indifference is paralysis of the soul, premature death. (Anton Pavlovich Chekhov)

If you are indifferent to the suffering of others, you do not deserve to be called a human being. (M. Saadi)

Read the statements. How do you understand them? Explain.

Science has invented a cure for most of our diseases, but has never found a cure for the most terrible of them - indifference. (Helen Keller)

The worst crime we can commit against people is not to hate them, but to treat them with indifference; This is the essence of inhumanity. (B. Shaw)

Read the statements. How do you understand them? Explain.

It is easy to hide hatred, it is difficult to hide love, and most difficult to hide is indifference.

People live and do not see each other, they walk side by side, like cows in a herd; At best, they will drink the bottle together.

People now have no time for each other.

Situation 1. Anton, leaving class for recess, quietly took his classmate’s phone from his desk, so that he could sell it later and spend the money on his own pleasures. Several people noticed this, but did not stop him. Later, when the noise was made, again everyone remained silent.

Situation 2. The old grandfather tried to cross the road. Or rather, he was only able to cross one lane; then no one stopped. Drivers honked and drove around, but no one let us through.

Situation 3.

The young man was thrown off the bus, and he stood in the cold for 12 hours, receiving serious frostbite. Now he needs surgery - doctors fear that his hands will have to be amputated, Vesti FM radio reports.

Disabled Vitaly Sedukhinsky was accompanied by his mother, but at the bus stop she slipped and did not have time to enter the salon. The doors slammed shut in front of her. The woman was unable to catch up with her son on another bus. The young man drove to the final stop - the village of Novosilikatny. The young man simply could not ask for help - due to his health condition, he does not speak. 12 hours later, at 4 a.m., a passerby discovered the disabled person at this stop. She called an ambulance.

(335 words) Why do indifferent people scare us so much? They do nothing wrong, but they turn a blind eye to a lot of things. Their inaction is comparable to consenting to or even encouraging the atrocities of others. Such an insensitive attitude towards everything that happens suggests that indifference is deadly to the human soul.

Sometimes indifference can be compared to a crime, as in the story by A.P. Chekhov's "Ward No. 6". Andrei Efimych Ragin is indifferent to the terrible unsanitary conditions in the hospital. He cannot be called a bad person, but he has no faith at all that he can change the situation for the better. He initially puts effort into his work, but later comes to the conclusion that trying to treat people under such conditions is futile. In addition, Ragin begins to justify his inaction by saying that death is “the normal and legitimate end of everyone,” and therefore it is useless to treat patients. And, in his opinion, it is also not necessary to alleviate the suffering of the sick, because it is through them that a person comes to perfection. The doctor in Ragin is overwhelmed by such philosophical reasoning and completely gives up. Andrei Efimych does not care about his duty: he comes occasionally, and even then he works only for show. With his tacit consent, outrages occur in the hospital. As a result, Ragin, only when he finds himself in the place of the patients, when his colleagues suspect him of madness, realizes the full horror of reality, to which he had previously turned a blind eye. However, it becomes too late for repentance, and retribution for indifference comes.

In the story by L.V. Tolstoy's "After the Ball" also touches on the problem of indifference. The main character Ivan Vasilyevich is having fun at a ball at night with his beloved and her father, a colonel. Everything around him seems like some kind of incredible fairy tale, but this is absolutely the opposite of what he encounters later. Ivan Vasilyevich sees how the hitherto charming and good-natured colonel encourages the merciless beating of a Tatar who was trying to escape. Despite the pleas of the unfortunate man, the colonel remains indifferent to the suffering of others. And even vice versa: he hits a soldier in the face who did not strike hard enough. Such cruelty and insensitivity indicate that indifference sometimes hides behind the most beautiful mask, but is still a source of evil.

Indifference devastates a person, impoverishes his soul. If you put up with evil, then it will win. It's better to do something than to do nothing at all.

The words of the American poet Richard Eberhart have become famous: “Do not be afraid of your enemies, in the worst case they can kill you, do not be afraid of your friends - in the worst case they can betray you. Fear the indifferent - they do not kill or betray, but only with their silent consent does betrayal and murder exist on earth.”

Perhaps these were the words that the young American Kitty Genovese vaguely remembered in the last minutes of her life. Her life was tragically cut short early this morning March 13 1964 in front of dozens of witnesses, none of whom came to her aid. The incident received coverage in dozens of newspapers, but would soon be forgotten like thousands of other “little big city tragedies.” However, psychologists to this day continue to discuss the “Genovese case” in unsuccessful attempts to understand the dark sides of human nature (this incident is mentioned in widely known textbooks by Jo Godefroy, Elliot Aronson, and others).

That night (it was past four o'clock) the young waitress was returning from her night shift. New York is not the calmest city on Earth, and she probably did not feel very comfortable walking alone along the deserted streets at night. Vague fears materialized into a bloody nightmare at the very threshold of her house. Here she was subjected to a brutal, unmotivated attack. The criminal began to beat the defenseless victim, then stabbed her several times. Kitty struggled and desperately called for help. Her heartbreaking screams woke up the entire neighborhood: dozens of residents of the apartment building in which she lived clung to the windows and watched what was happening. But not a single one lifted a finger to help her. Moreover, no one bothered to even pick up the phone and call the police. The belated call came only when it was no longer possible to save the unfortunate woman.

This incident leads to the saddest thoughts about human nature. Does the principle “My house is on the edge” for most people outweigh the seemingly natural compassion for a defenseless victim? Hot on the heels, psychologists interviewed 38 witnesses to the night incident. It was not possible to obtain an intelligible answer about the motives for their indifferent behavior.

Then several experiments were organized (not very ethical, because they were openly provocative in nature): psychologists staged an incident in which a figurehead found himself in a threatening situation, and observed the reactions of witnesses. The results were disappointing - few people rushed to the rescue of their neighbors. However, there was not even a need for special experiments - in real life there were enough similar collisions, many of which were described in the press. Many examples have been recorded of how a person who suffered from an attack, accident or sudden attack could not get the necessary help for a long time, although dozens and even hundreds of people passed by (one American woman, who broke her leg, lay in shock for almost an hour in the middle of the most crowded street New York - Fifth Avenue).

It was still possible to draw some conclusions from provocative experiments and simple everyday observations. It turned out that the sheer number of observers is not just an impressive figure, blatant evidence of mass mental callousness, but also a strong demoralizing factor. The more outsiders observe the victim's helplessness, the less likely she is to receive help from any of them. On the contrary, if there are few witnesses, then some of them will most likely provide support. If there is only one witness, the likelihood of this increases even more. It is characteristic that often the only witness involuntarily looks around, as if wanting to compare his behavior with the behavior of those around him (or to find someone on whom he could shift the responsibility that has suddenly fallen?). Since there are no people around you, you have to act yourself, in accordance with your moral ideas. Of course, here too people behave differently, but, probably, it is precisely this situation of personal responsibility that acts as a kind of moral test. “If not me, then who?”

On the contrary, when seeing at least a few people not reacting to what is happening, a person involuntarily asks the question: “What do I need more than everyone else?”

Psychologists note: in such critical situations, residents of large, overpopulated metropolitan areas are much more likely to show extreme indifference than residents of rural areas and small towns. Hugo was probably right when he remarked: “Nowhere do you feel so alone as in a crowd.” The anonymity of a big city, where everyone is indifferent to each other, everyone is a stranger, every man for himself, leads to severe moral deformations. The city dweller gradually acquires a shell of indifference, not realizing that if trouble happens to him, hundreds of passers-by will step over him, not paying attention to his suffering. In such a soulless atmosphere, the soul is depleted, and sooner or later an emotional and moral breakdown occurs. And a person rushes to a psychologist to save himself from spiritual poverty. There are many qualified psychologists today. There are fewer good ones. Because a good psychologist, according to the correct observation of Sidney Jurard, is first and foremost a good person. At least he shouldn't be like those who watched the painful death of Kitty Genovese on a March morning many years ago.

Wise thoughts

Activist of the Czechoslovak communist movement, writer, critic, journalist. National hero of Czechoslovakia. Member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia since 1921.

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Beware of the indifferent! It is with their tacit consent that all the evil on earth is committed!

A hero is a person who, at a decisive moment, does what needs to be done in the interests of human society.

Even the strictest isolation cannot isolate anyone unless the person isolates himself.

Every fraudster relies on the poor memory of the one who is about to be deceived.

Everyone who was faithful to the future and died to make it beautiful is like a statue carved from stone.

People, I loved you, be careful!

We speak different languages, but there is no difference in our blood - the blood and will of the proletariat. (Report with a noose around the neck)

Do not be afraid of enemies - they can only kill; do not be afraid of friends - they can only betray; Be afraid of indifferent people - it is with their tacit consent that all the most terrible crimes in the world occur.

But even the dead we will live in a particle of our great happiness; after all, we have invested our lives in it.

I ask one thing to those who will survive this time: do not forget! Do not forget either the good or the evil. Patiently collect testimonies of those who fell for themselves and for you.
The day will come when the present will become the past, when they will talk about a great time and nameless heroes who made history. I would like everyone to know: there were no nameless heroes. There were people, each with their own name, their own appearance, their own aspirations and hopes, and the torment of the most unnoticed of them was no less than the torment of the one whose name will go down in history. May these people always be close to you, as friends, as family, as you yourself!
Entire generations of heroes have fallen. Love at least one of them, like sons and daughters, be proud of him, like a great man who lived in the future. Everyone who was faithful to the future and died to make it beautiful is like a statue carved from stone.
(Report with a noose around the neck)

I ask one thing to those who will survive this time: do not forget!
Do not forget either the good or the evil.
Patiently collect testimonies of those who fell for themselves and for you.

Individuals can: morally decay, people - never.

Looking at people with a broken conscience is even worse than looking at people who have been beaten.

I loved life and fought for its beauty. I loved you, people, and was happy when you answered me in kind, and suffered when you did not understand me. Whom I offended - forgive me, whom I pleased - don’t be sad. Let my name not cause sadness in anyone. This is my testament to you, father, mother and sisters, to you, my Gustina, to you, comrades, to everyone who loved me as passionately as I loved them. If tears help you wash away the veil of melancholy from your eyes, cry. But don't be sorry. I lived for joy, I die for it, and it would be unfair to place an angel of sorrow on my grave.
May Day! At this hour they were already forming ranks on the outskirts of cities and unfurling banners. At this hour, the first ranks of troops are already marching on the streets of Moscow for the May parade. And now millions of people are fighting the last battle for the freedom of mankind. Thousands die in this battle. I am one of them. Being one of the warriors of the last battle is wonderful!
(Report with a noose around the neck)

Psychological tips for every day Stepanov Sergey Sergeevich

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The words of the American poet Richard Eberhart have become famous: “Do not be afraid of your enemies, in the worst case they can kill you, do not be afraid of your friends - in the worst case they can betray you. Fear the indifferent - they do not kill or betray, but only with their silent consent does betrayal and murder exist on earth.”

Perhaps these were the words that the young American Kitty Genovese vaguely remembered in the last minutes of her life. Her life ended tragically in the early morning hours of March 13, 1964, in front of dozens of witnesses, none of whom came to her aid. The incident received coverage in dozens of newspapers, but would soon be forgotten, like thousands of other “little big city tragedies.” However, psychologists to this day continue to discuss the “Genovese case” in unsuccessful attempts to understand the dark sides of human nature.

That night (it was past four o'clock) the young waitress was returning from her night shift. New York is not the calmest city on Earth, and she probably did not feel very comfortable walking alone along the deserted streets at night. Vague fears materialized into a bloody nightmare at the very threshold of her house. Here she was subjected to a brutal, unmotivated attack. The attacker may have suffered from mental illness or been drugged; his motives could not be ascertained because he was never caught. The criminal began to beat the defenseless victim, then stabbed her several times with a knife. Kitty struggled and desperately called for help. Her heartbreaking screams woke up the entire neighborhood: dozens of residents of the apartment building in which she lived clung to the windows and watched what was happening. But not a single one lifted a finger to help her. Moreover, no one bothered to even pick up the phone and call the police. The belated call came only when it was no longer possible to save the unfortunate woman.

This incident leads to the saddest thoughts about human nature. Does the principle “My house is on the edge” for most people outweigh the seemingly natural compassion for a defenseless victim? Hot on the heels, psychologists interviewed 38 witnesses to the night incident. It was not possible to obtain an intelligible answer about the motives for their indifferent behavior.

Then several experiments were organized (not very ethical, because they were openly provocative in nature): psychologists staged an incident in which a figurehead found himself in a threatening situation, and observed the reactions of witnesses. The results were disappointing - few people rushed to the rescue of their neighbors. However, there was not even a need for special experiments - in real life there were enough similar collisions, many of which were described in the press. Many examples have been recorded of how a person who suffered from an attack, accident or sudden attack could not get the necessary help for a long time, although dozens and even hundreds of people passed by (one American woman, who broke her leg, lay in shock for almost an hour in the middle of the most crowded street New York - Fifth Avenue).

It was still possible to draw some conclusions from provocative experiments and simple everyday observations. It turned out that the sheer number of observers is not just an impressive figure, blatant evidence of mass mental callousness, but also a strong demoralizing factor. The more outsiders observe the victim's helplessness, the less likely she is to receive help from any of them. And on the contrary, if there are few witnesses, then some of them will most likely provide support. If there is only one witness, the likelihood of this increases even more. It is characteristic that often the only witness involuntarily looks around, as if wanting to compare his behavior with the behavior of those around him (or to find someone to whom he could shift the responsibility that has suddenly fallen?). Since there are no people around you, you have to act yourself, in accordance with your moral ideas. Of course, here too people behave differently, but, probably, it is precisely this situation of personal responsibility that acts as a kind of moral test: “If not me, then who?”

On the contrary, when seeing at least a few people not reacting to what is happening, a person involuntarily asks the question: “What do I need more than everyone else?”

Psychologists note: in such critical situations, residents of large overpopulated cities are much more likely to show extreme indifference than residents of rural areas and small towns. Hugo was probably right when he remarked: “Nowhere do you feel so alone as in a crowd.” The anonymity of a big city, where everyone is indifferent to each other, everyone is a stranger, every man for himself, leads to severe moral deformations. The city dweller gradually acquires a shell of indifference, not realizing that if trouble happens to him, hundreds of passers-by will step over him, not paying attention to his suffering. In such a soulless atmosphere, the soul becomes callous, and sooner or later an emotional and moral breakdown occurs. And a person rushes to a psychologist to save himself from spiritual poverty. There are many qualified psychologists today. There are fewer good ones. Because a good psychologist, according to the correct observation of Sidney Jurard, is first and foremost a good person. At least he shouldn't be like those who watched the painful death of Kitty Genovese on a March morning many years ago.