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Well, "us as a society" has been happening at least since the story of the Good Samaritan... everyone walked over that left-for-dead guy (attacked, robbed, beaten nearly to death), too, except for one.
I'm just as frustrated as you are (I wrote about something similar in my journal a while back, though it wasn't as extreme of a situation), but at the same time, I really wonder whether it's just not in human nature to be altruistic and help others, if we don't get anything out of it ourselves. The ones who do go out of their way to help others are rare, or at least it seems from stories like this one.
It's just freakin' sad, is what it is. Makes you wonder who raised those people who ignore someone dying under their feet.
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And think not you can direct the course of Love;
for Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
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