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Originally Posted by Xanafax  Stepping in to help someone because you think you should, even if you can't fight, or aren't strong, is bad. It's stupid.
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Wow, that statement is so profound in terms of propagating social apathy, that I shudder at thinking what this planet might look like if everyone fell into that abyss of robotic thinking. However, that said, we have many examples of what it does produce.
The Kitty Genovese story (Wiki would have you believe that the headlines were a misconception...but the simple truth is that 38 people did nothing. We have a way of denying our
social apathy. )
But that is an old story, haven't we grown up as a society? I could wish, but the
headlines tell me that we have a long way to go.
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The young woman had been attacked in full view of a New York City subway clerk, then dragged down the steps onto a deserted platform where she was raped and raped again, the assailant not stopping even when a subway train pulled into the station."
At 65 with waning strength I will do whatever it takes to help another in distress. And if it means rising to the occasion to do battle in which I cannot possibly win, I will do that for one simple reason: to maintain my sense of dignity. Is this logical? Is it stupid? In a world of self serving people it would be absurd: but I do not live in a world of self serving people. I live in a world that allows each one of us to rise above the limits of our personal insecurities. We have a long way to go, but we are making the attempt.
70 year old Man Dies After Saving Two Boys From Near Drowning "It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men." -Nietzsche