Another reason for the seemingly self-centered behavior is fear of embarrassment: what if I rush to help a person in need but I am promptly made a fool of by the criminal? Furthermore, many people assume that someone else will do something; we basically don't feel responsible in situations like these, just as George, Jerry, Elaine, and Kramer felt not the slightest inkling of social responsibility. In fact, the entire sitcom is based on the fact that many people feel a complete lack of social responsibility: we are selfish, self-centered individuals. If helping someone isn't in our best interest, or if we won't get anything out of it personally, chances are we will stand back and watch. We are voyeuristic, insular, and eerily similar to George, Jerry, Elaine, and Kramer. The characters' arrest under the "Good Samaritan" law leads to a trail in which their moral characters are scrutinized in a court of law. The prosecution...

All four of them, in their own ways, placed their needs, desires, and egos before anyone else's.
If "Good Samartian" laws were to be instated in every American city, no doubt citizens would initially balk and complain. Yet gradually our values would come to reflect a higher sense of social responsibility. Whether that means pulling over on the side of the road to help a stranded motorist, or to phone in for the police in the midst of a robbery, each individual has the power to help someone in need. Simple actions could save lives. Creepy as many of the hyperbolic Seinfeld situations are, they mirror our own fears and our own faults. Seinfeld's social criticism can therefore teach us lessons on how our behavior might reasonably change to make our world a better place to live.