Mike DomitrzPresident, Author, and Speaker on Respect, The Center for Respect, Inc. · Author & Speaker on Respect for Schools, Corporations, & the Military since 1990 (has reached

Stopping a crime is not ""killing the fun""!

25 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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In this segment of a YouTube video, the speaker examines why bystanders often fail to stop potentially harmful situations, especially sexual assault. The primary reasons identified are fear of confrontation, embarrassment, and the misguided belief that intervening will "kill the fun" for everyone involved. The speaker highlights the selfishness inherent in prioritizing fun over safety, urges listeners to recognize this mindset, and calls for personal accountability to intervene when witnessing possible rape or other crimes.

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What are reasons you think people are not stopping? Yes? Kills the fun. All right, yeah, you're, you're going to kill the fun, right? And that could be embarrassing and humiliating. So what we, when we get down to that, it comes down to fear of confrontation is what that typically comes down to. That it's either going to embarrass me, make me look bad. Now let's just stop for a second on that. I'm not going to stop a potential rape, you know, because it might kill the fun. Does that sound awful, by the way? If you agree that sounds awful, just say awful. Awful. That sounds awful. Think about how selfish that is, right? So we have to call that out on ourselves.