Should i help a man who's bothering electricians?

Question

This morning I saw a man working on a live electrical box (one that is connected and has electricity). He was obviously a well educated electrician, and he was just doing his job.

I saw another man walking up to him, bothering the electrician with all sorts of questions and warnings. The electrician was obviously so distracted from his work, that a dangerous situation could occur.

Should i tell the man to stop bothering electricians? The electricians are obviously educated well enough to think and act for themselves, right?

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Answer 1

Well, before my dad retired, he was an electrician, and I can tell you, it was his absolute favorite thing when someone came up and told him how to do his job.

Answer 2

How did the guy know the credentials of the worker? And why in heaven's name is an "electrician" working on live wires? If a non-electrician spotted danger, the worker should have as well. And whats wrong with the worker pausing and acknowledging the advice and reassuring the good fellow that all was under control? That would have solved the situation and made everything positive.
And then people complain about how indifferent we've become.

Answer 3

I have a friend who is blind. She's as capable a human being as you'd ever meet, but she can't see a thing.

One day I took her, her son, and her seeing eye dog to the vet's office. When we got back to her house, she started to make soup for her son's lunch. Now, I'm in the kitchen with her and staying out of her way while she does her thing, but I notice that the mail is on the burner close to the one she's put the pot of soup on. And my moment of fear hits. Do I say something and offend her, or tell her about it?

As I'm thinking this, she runs her hands across the stove and finds the mail and exclaims, "This is no place for the mail!" Then she laughed and said, "Why didn't you tell me!"

I explained my dilemma, and she thought it was pretty humorous, but assured me I could warn her without offending her.

It's hard to know when we need looking out for and when we don't. I have both given advice when it wasn't needed or welcomed, and have failed to give advice only to find it was needed and would have been appreciated.

It's a hard call to make.

Answer 4

I think you can tell the bothersome man all you want to stop bothering the electricians, but as long as he truly thinks he is "saving them from mortal danger" I don't think he's going to listen.

Answer 5

Agreed to an extent, if these men were playing wildly and putting the neighborhood at risk, if its their own lives so be it, but as will pointed out the men turned out ok, so that means conrad was "wrong";

I don't think in the spiritual sense they are wrong, thou, just that for me this idea of if I don't believe what Conrad does I am going to hell, that hasn't been made proven to me to where it makes sense. It might be right for Conrad, but God hasn't made that real to me, maybe he did for Conrad.

But those men appear to be doing their jobs and if they didn't die as Conrad thought, clearly he was "overreacting"

I feel as thou Christians overreact to me when they say IM going to hell.

Answer 6

LOL!!! Does seem that it would cause a distraction, doesn't it?

I think you should tell him, yes. It is your duty, otherwise, he might never know that he's being truly... um... dumb. Not that it's not noble of him to try to help people that are in danger... however, there's such a thing as too much help.

Answer 7

Yes
This situation is not a religious one, more like common sense.
People question things not just because they are in the Bible.

Answer 8

I would have said something to him, obviously he doesn't know the dangers of a person in that field. MORON.....

Answer 9

This is an interesting question. Let me know if anyone gets electrocuted.

Answer 10

Try butting out.