Loss of morality

[motion]

I won't watch it either, but I think its fairly safe to say that people are safer and treated better at this point in time than at any point in the past.

[GWN7]

It was on the local news at noon.... what was most disturbing was the number of people who walked by her as she lay in the street...............

[targa911S]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

i think we're on borrowed time anyway.

+1

[Normy]

Originally Posted by tabs

What is one more life more or less when there are 1.3 Billion in China. The attitude is you beter be able to look out for yourself because no one else will, and it is your fault if you don't.

-Isn't that kind of what you'd like for this country, Tabs?

N!

[ronster]

I taught English conversation in South Korea for a year and their culture is heavily influenced by the Chinese and the Japanese. Occasionally a student would take me out for drinks and karaoke and when we met up with a friend of theirs I noticed that sometimes they would introduce us and sometimes they wouldn't. One day I asked my advanced class why introductions sometimes and sometimes not. They explained that they have a custom, inherited from the Chinese, called the "non person." If you are with someone they will always ask a friend they encounter if they want to meet you, if they are introduced then they are responsible for you but if they decline you are a non person and they can walk right by your dying body and not lift a finger to help you. It is hard to understand some customs from other countries especially the Orient but keep in mind a young woman was stabbed to death, I believe in NY City, some years ago and no one responded to her pleas for help even after the assailant came back a second time to finish her off.

[exc911ence]

Originally Posted by GWN7

It was on the local news at noon.... what was most disturbing was the number of people who walked by her as she lay in the street...............

Watched it, pretty awful really. Hard to believe that anyone could walk nonchalantly past another person, toddler or not, still alive in the street with half of his/her guts squeezed out. Is it that common an occurrence that they no longer notice?

[Kroggers]

I will not watch it, and as a father to three children (12, 3 and 1.5) I have to ask - how did a two year old end up in the road and where were the parents in all of this???

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by imcarthur

I didn't watch the video either. But on the subject of children, you might want to read this BBC article: America's child death shame

"Every five hours a child dies from abuse or neglect in the US.

The latest government figures show an estimated 1,770 children were killed as a result of maltreatment in 2009.

A recent congressional report concludes the real number could be nearer 2,500.

In fact, America has the worst child abuse record in the industrialised world."

Ian

The parts of the US where this takes place is not "industrialized". We've bred several generations of dependant people where this takes place.

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

I think we're on borrowed time anyway.

word.