Thursday, November 30, 2017
Uncaring
In 2011, a two-year-old girl was run down by a truck in the Chinese city of Foshan. The girl, Yue Yue, lay in the road for seven minutes, and was run over again, while people walked and cycled past her until finally a woman moved her to the side of the road. She later died of her injuries in hospital.
The ensuing global outrage focused on changes in China's social patterns. The possibility of being liable for the girl's medical bills might have been a contributing factor in people's reluctance to help. Guangdong province discussed introducing a law to make it illegal to ignore someone in distress. But it's not about being Chinese. In 2009,twenty people witnessed the rape and murder of a fifteen-year-old girl in Richmond, California. No one called for help, or intervened. Some people even filmed it on their phones. Some bystanders later said that they thought this was a joke, people messing about. But no one checked; no one asked if she needed help.
- From The 15-minute psychologist by Anne Rooney
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
The right thing
Roy Bleake: What was it you told me? People think it's hard to do the right thing.
Harry Fertig: It's not hard to do the right thing.
Roy Bleake: It's hard to know what the right thing is - but once you know...
Harry Fertig: Once you know... Once you know what is right, then it's hard not to do it.
Harry Fertig: Once you know... once you know what is right, then it's hard not to do it.
- from the movie The Confession
Harry Fertig: It's not hard to do the right thing.
Roy Bleake: It's hard to know what the right thing is - but once you know...
Harry Fertig: Once you know... Once you know what is right, then it's hard not to do it.
Harry Fertig: Once you know... once you know what is right, then it's hard not to do it.
- from the movie The Confession
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Show friend
Have you ever been with someone who always asks you to join
them for dinner, snacks, buy something from the corner store but then when you
are with them what they would do is constantly text on their phone or worse
scroll through their social media accounts?
What is with this kind of person? Are they just afraid to be
seen alone that they need the company just for show?
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