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As far as the comments about me not doing anything. You're right. When it comes down to it, I acted just like the people in the cars. I hate to admit this, but I could just as easily have called 9-1-1 myself. I'm sure they got a few calls, but one more wouldn't hurt.
As for me not going down to help either, just as a few have mentioned, I don't know why I didn't. Well, actually, I do know. My thinking was: By the time I get down there, the ambulance will be there and someone else would have surely stopped. I partook in the same apathy that I am deriding, assuming someone else would take over in the situation.
It would be very easy for me to come up with all kinds of excuses for not throwing on some clothes and getting down there, but in the end, I would really have no justification for standing and watching. It just seems so much easier to justify in my own mind watching from my vantage point.
I'm hoping that this incident provokes me to seriously rethink my own actions.
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"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am" - Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses
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