whats wrong with people these days......?

Question

why do some people think they have the right to decide if a person should live or die?
if you see someone laying on the ground not moving would you phone for an ambulance even if you knew that person was addicted to drugs?
i ask as on my way home from the gym today this happened to me.
i knew the guy as we went to the same school.
everyone was looking at him and saying he deserved to die and didnt bother to call for help so i had to.
he is usually such a lovely guy but he has just lost his way and fell in with the wrong people.
why do we hate being judged but are quick to judge somebody else?
we are all the same.
we all deserve a second chance at life.

also the sad thing is all the people had nothing better to do than stand around and watch me trying to help him.
i was the only person doing anything and ended up being late to pick my son up from nursery. they could put their lives on hold to watch him die but not to help him live. how sick is that!

Answer 1

Thats such a shame Samantha , i had the same thing happen to me about 20 years ago . some guy i knew was laying in a pool of blood after a fight and not one person called for an ambulance , so i did .

Its not a nice thing to see , but some people out there dont give a rats *** .
You did the right thing my friend , you carry on doing it


Have a nice day Samantha

Answer 2

Ok, ok, ok since when is leaving a cutsie note on a lunch box considered chivalry? I would say a guy that puts a cutsie note on a lunch box was a girl! I don't think I ever seen a guy pick me a flower unless were in a field of them! If some guy shows up at my door with freshly picked flowers saying they reminded him of me. Not only and I thinking he is weird I am checking my neighbor flower boxes. Look some guys do have a hard time being romantic in fact some guys are not romantic at all. Romance comes in many forms. For some it's a candle lit pizza, for some it's a nice dinner. Romance means nothing more than a act of recognition and emotion. Not all dudes run there girlfriends bubble baths. You need to let your dude know you even like them to begin with. I mean geez, when was the last time your friend even took a bubble bath? Has her man ever even seen her take one? It's hard for a guy to do something romantic if you don't let him know what you think is really romantic. Men are not mind readers. They'll do it if you put out the right signals and messages. What about every time a guy opens a door for you and waits for you to pass through before he does or opens you car door? I mean if your not dating guys that do the little things your simply dating the wrong guys.

Answer 3

Sam, It is awakening thought of the day that you have put forward.

No body is bad from his or her birth. But these are circumstances which make or break somebody. Nobody has the same luck, but also at the same time, not every body have the same courage to take on life's sorrow's. The people with low emotional strength or sometimes the circumstances make them so weak that they are not able to face the bad times in lack of good support.

But yes, it is true that everybody is capable of changing themselves. There are so many examples in the history or even in the modern world that people have transformed completely. So judging a person that he and she cannot change is myth.

Proper support & strong will and transforming experiences can change the life of the person.

Who knows, this person, may learn a lesson from this experience and with proper medical support, he is able to transform himself fully. Probably, he will not ever know about your help to him, but atleast you have a satisfaction in your mind that you were able to help somebody.

I urge everybody including me that we should stop judging the person and instead we should contribute in some way for welfare of mankind.

Thanks for raising this issue on Yahoo Answers.

Answer 4

Some people are scared to get out of their comfort zone and help others which is sad
I was at a set of traffic lights with then my small children in a major town there was about 4 lanes of traffic
..anyway as you do you look around I saw a man lying just off the side of the road not moving an elderly couple were in the car across from me they saw him too as did about 30 other people ,but only me and the elderly couple jumped out of our cars and went to check on this man who by the way had knocked himself unconscious from a severe seizure
I called an ambulance and the elderly couple stayed with him until the ambulance took him away I walked back to my car which was holding up traffic to get told I was holding up traffic, and to hurry up
People need to stop judging other, as who knows one day you may need the kindness of a complete stranger

Answer 5

People just don't think Yea, I agree. We all deserve a second chance at life, but not everyone thinks that. As soon as you do something bad, well uh-oh, everyone hates you. But they pretty much teach us that in school. It's called thinklose-win. When your not in one group you are automatically stereotyped into something your not. Those people that were just watching, didn't help him either because they were shocked, or just didn't want anything to do with it. Lots of people get addicted to drugs. It's only half their fault, those people should have known better. No one deserves to die just because they choosed the wrong path.

Answer 6

As much as I hate drug users I wouldn't just walk away and let someone die. I wouldn't do that to a dog so why would I do it to a human being? Your right everybody deserves a second chance but he has to be willing to get the help he needs!! How would those people that wouldn't help feel if it was a loved one of theirs would they still watch him die and feel the same way? I think not! Thank God for people like you. You did a great thing and may have saved a life.

Answer 7

It may be hard for you to accept, but people would rather hear a lie than the truth, the reasoning is the truth hurts worse than a lie. People would rather see you fail than succeed, their reasoning behind this is jealousy and fear, people are are always jealous and fearful that someone may get one step above them, or become more successful than they, they can deny it, like they would any subconcious addiction or illness, but sub-conciously they cannot deny it, such is the instinctive cancer of our primitive brains.

Thus is the basis of their judgement, a feeble attempt to vindicate themselves to make themselves feel superior to another, ignoring their own iniquities at the benefit of watching another suffer or causing them discomfort or pain. We are all susceptible to this psychological disease, it leads to all points negative, and it can and has stem'ed into racist views, and worse case scenario violence.

Humans love to watch eachother suffer, so long as the victim is not one of their own, just turn on the TV and see the suffering for yourself, take a peak into the window of the human soul, this disease is rampent through all society's and none are immune to it's influence. It is our babaric instincts that rule our instinctive thought patterns and that which influences our decisive judgements of what we believe to be righteous.

No matter what good deeds you do for your fellow man, they will eventually hate you for it, because it impede's and belittles them as being weak and inferior. They will always judge you, and point their accusing fingers. Just remember, to question the three fingers pointing back at their own iniquities.

Answer 8

Well done by the way for giving a monkeys about him. This is what infuriates me, people will never help but they find the time to stand around to see the outcome! I cannot imagine what must have been going through his mind knowing he needed help and looking up to see a load of useless nosey good for nothings simply staring back at him. I remember about a month ago, I heard a news report about a woman who was dying in a doorway and some idiot came up to her and amongst other things, urinated on her whilst she lay dying claiming it to be a 'good video for You Tube', and people stood by and let him do it to her! You are right, everyone deserves a second chance regardless of who or what they are.

Answer 9

It's a harsh reality that so many people just don't care, or their so numbed to situations like this. They think nothing of seeing someone being robbed or someone bleeding to death on the street. We are all humans here and we have the ability to do what is right.I think what is missing is the moral compassion. It is good to hear that there are still people that when called upon can still do what is right. I hope you have a good day.Thank God for the few that still care.

Answer 10

Yeah that's pretty jacked up. Some people are just heartless and they don't understand the value of human life. No matter who he has become, he is still a person that deserves to be treated as an equal. It's so sad.