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Originally Posted by poshgirl
There are so many angles to view this from.
Yes, empathy is supposed to be natural but the degree varies between people. It's human nature or may be related to culture.
The practical side of helping someone after a fall may be conditioned by your lack of first aid training and/or realising you could do more damage. In the situation I shared, I asked the elderly gentleman if he was alright. May seem a daft question when he'd cut himself and broken his glasses. However, he managed to stand and walk to a nearby bench.
When you watch the numerous programmes about paramedics, even they are cautious about moving someone until they've ascertained there's no spinal injury at the very least. Then they are trained to a very high standard. Contracting pneumonia after a fall is common with the elderly.
On the flip side, I do recall media reports some years ago about doctors and nurses refusing to answer calls for medical assistance on flights, due to possibility of being sued.
Around 15 years ago, my late uncle was taken ill (he had lots of underlying health problems). My cousin was not happy with the hospital he was taken to and thought it contributed to his death. I very tactfully suggested that with said hospital also treating injured military personnel, he could not have gone to a better place for medical expertise.
Hopefully, those threatening to sue will take a step back and realise that there is no case. However, grief can manifest itself in so many different ways.  |
The intervention I’m referring to is not the one that can put the person who has an emergency at more risk.
I said a normal aid, for example, to go closer to this person to see how he or she can be and of course, call the emergency service when necessary.
I have so many examples. A man taking his son to school on a motorbike. They fell down, the father got injured with a broken rib. Two cars passed cross, slowed down the rate but they didn’t stop.
It was in a rural road, so, no many people there. They had to call by themselves and wait for the son’s mother.
Luckily, up to what I know, the drivers of these cars didn’t slowed down to take a pic at them as this morning two cars made with a young guy who was “sleeping” opposite my house. I was at home, I have just woken up and I realised they were many people coming and going and noone went close to the guy to ask him a simple question: Do you need medical help? Are you ok?
I was shouting out through my window and the guy told me that a friend of him was coming and that he felt a little better. So, a bus stopped to get the friend get off it and they went off.
I don’t f. care if the guy’s problem was that he drunk too much at the funfair. One never knows how dangerous it could be for a young guy.
Another example, another country, another continent. A serial killer, the victim got to scape but the miserable of the killer was chasing him with a gun. Of course, the guy was running in zig-zag when he finally arrived to the road. Cars and cars didn’t stop. It was in the morning.
Thanks god a woman stopped and the guy could save his life.
It happens all the time in the News. People fighting or arguing and others around taking pics with their stupid phones.
All our development is related to our biological capacity to adapt ourselves to the environmental characteristics. That made us to develop our brain in a certain way. Prefrontal Cortex made us rational humans. Being capable of coexist for a common wellbeing. Now, what?
Which conditions are around us? What does convert us in robots, in brainless beings going here and there in the streets, at homes, wherever with our nose sticked on a screen.
Are these conditions helping to overcome our ancient mechanism of defence that the different one is not one of us, or is subject to be on guard?
Personality, this world we are creating is terribly disgusting. 🤮🤮🤮