Would you ignore a dying woman?

Question

A woman in a Wichita, Kansas convenience store was stabbed and left to die. Five customers stepped over her to make their purchases and one even took out a camera phone and took a picture of the dying woman. It took a full two minutes before anyone called the police. The victim died.

Why do you think people would do this? Would you? What punishment, if any, do you think they should receive for what they've done?

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Answer 1

Man's inhumanity to man never ceases to amaze me. I should think each and every one of them should be booked as an accessory to murder.

Answer 2

How sad. Not much different from the recent story of the woman who was bleeding internally in the ER, begging for help, the doctors ignored her. Other patients were trying to call 911 because no one would treat her. The woman bled to death. In the hospital. Waiting to be seen. The coroner said she would have survived if someone/anyone had tried to help her.
So sad.

What a great world we live in, huh?

Answer 3

No, I wouldn't do such a thing. I'd rush to her aid and yell for someone to call 911 and start seeing what I could do to help her until better help arrived. I'd also yell for a doctor, medic, or nurse, while I was at it, and yell for whatever things I thought I needed to help.

I think they are culpable in her death and should be charged as accessories to murder.

It used to be that you were held responsible if you could help and didn't. Now people are afraid to help for fear of being sued. The one who took the picture was either thinking of the police needs or was a ghoul.

Maggie

Answer 4

America is one of the most violent countries in the world, they have a "must win", "must have it now", together with guns that are almost mandatory.
The only country to use nuclear weapons, not to mention "the war"
The poor are left with no health care. People who sneak in to the country looking for a better life are given no chance to make it legal.

It doesn't excuse the actions of the customers, but a declining standard of general caring for other people has made everyone desensitized
I agree it's sad

Answer 5

1. I would call 911 right away.
2. Tend to the woman the best I can.

It reminds me of the story of the woman who ran into a man and he was stuck in the windshield. She drove home with the guy moaning away. Went into the house and came out a while later patted him on the head went back inside.
The guy die.

There is no bottom when it comes to how we treat our fellow man.

Answer 6

That is just nauseating. Of course I wouldn't do that. I would call 911 immediately if I saw someone in need of medical attention. I have done so, actually, when I witnessed a car accident. I don't know how those selfish people can live with themselves. They should be ashamed.

Answer 7

Because people simply don't care about anything outside of themselves. The best thing we could do would be to print their faces on the front pages of the leading newspapers in America and invite them to explain themselves.

Answer 8

I would stop to help and I have done so in the past.

I think that people who stepped over her should all get some jail time for not stopping to help her.

Answer 9

Largely, it is a result of the manner in which American households act like islands unto themselves. We are so isolated socially that we are conditioned not to react to help another unless they are within our "group" (friends, relatives, loved ones, whatever that group is.)

Answer 10

We live is a selfish society, where the only thing people care about is themselves. It makes me sick to read things like that. Whatever happened to the golden rule?