Two Russian young men who live in Sweden wanted to do a social experiment to see how people would react if a hungry, homeless man tried to steal food they were supposed to watch over.
They set up a hidden camera at a McDonald’s with one man posing as a customer and the other as a homeless man.
When the “customer” leaves his table to go to the restroom, he asks fellow diners to watch his food. That’s when the second “homeless” man moves to steal it.
The two young men explained, “We had to put people in this situation since many choose to ignore homeless people otherwise. Here, they were forced to confront the homeless man. There is no right or wrong here but as human beings, we try to promote compassion to our kin.”
It’s certainly thought-provoking to see all the different reactions people had to this situation and it got me thinking of how we all choose to resolve conflicts differently and if or when we choose compassion.
Watch what happened when a police officer responded to a call of a woman caught stealing eggs to feed her family.
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