Absolutely, I try to help unless there's a crowd. Then it just gets the mandatory 911 call.
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Originally Posted by rhaevyn
I don't particularly like it when news reporters/camera crews film such things, either...
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Agreed. It's always distracting to think of what the person could be doing to help vs. filming the event. I put it down to some professional credo but still disagree with it if their participation could help the situation.
This woman gets the Karma award. Doesn't help her sister, but her idle voyeurism will probably serve as a lesson to many.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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