over the decades we have become more and more self-centered. community and family values have declined, traditional society systems have been eroded, everybody is loking out for themselves and love thy neighbor has been a forgotten principle.
now we have gone one step further.
for people living in any large conurbation it will not come as a surprise to see someone lying on a pavement or against a shop wall and everybody walks past. we are afraid of what we may find - a knive in the stomach or just a fellow human being in need of help. nobody wants to be a victim of crime. and nobody wants to see misery and misfortune - it could happen to us next.
we have become used to NOT CARE or have compassion.
now it has been legalised.
in times past you could be sued for not helping. now you can be sued for trying to help.
what has society become?
someone once said.
"to be or do wrong is bad. but to stand by watching it and DO NOTHING is worse"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081218/ap_on_re_us/samaritan_protection
now we have gone one step further.
for people living in any large conurbation it will not come as a surprise to see someone lying on a pavement or against a shop wall and everybody walks past. we are afraid of what we may find - a knive in the stomach or just a fellow human being in need of help. nobody wants to be a victim of crime. and nobody wants to see misery and misfortune - it could happen to us next.
we have become used to NOT CARE or have compassion.
now it has been legalised.
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| LOS ANGELES – Proving that no good deed goes unpunished, the state's high court on Thursday said a would-be Good Samaritan accused of rendering her friend paraplegic by pulling her from a wrecked car "like a rag doll" can be sued.
California's Supreme Court ruled that the state's Good Samaritan law only protects people from liability if the are administering emergency medical care, and that Lisa Torti's attempted rescue of her friend didn't qualify. |
in times past you could be sued for not helping. now you can be sued for trying to help.
what has society become?
someone once said.
"to be or do wrong is bad. but to stand by watching it and DO NOTHING is worse"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081218/ap_on_re_us/samaritan_protection
