Man saves drowning family, but they leave him to drown in return
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Every time I look in the news I keep seeing more and more reasons as to why I should never try to save anyone.
Shit like this is what keeps people from doing good things.
[QUOTE=prooboo;36798262]Once again: morality doesn't apply when you've got a family.
[editline]16th July 2012[/editline]
It's cold, sure, but you can't be weak in front of your family either.[/QUOTE]
"That man just saved my family's life, and now it's my chance to save him... but little Billy's shirt is wet, now I have to go home and dry him off. Sorry bro, it's you or the shirt."
Go fuck yourself.
I sincerely mean this.
Go fuck yourself.
You piece of shit.
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I literally cannot wrap my head around this. Are our cultures so different that something like helping people in need (something I like to think is common sense) is considered 'against common sense' by them?
[QUOTE=Performula;36798110]The family owned that guy really hard.[/QUOTE]
Please leave.
No matter what proooboo, if this man hadn't figured he'd be alive after this event, he'd never have saved the family. The mentality this creates just makes it less likely for future people to get saved. If all reactions were like this one, then this family wouldn't get saved because no one would risk themselves for that.
They'd be dead and he'd be alive. Something I think would be a better solution than this one
[QUOTE=prooboo;36798262]Once again: morality doesn't apply when you've got a family.
[editline]16th July 2012[/editline]
It's cold, sure, but you can't be weak in front of your family either.[/QUOTE]
Morality, by definition, is what should be done, saying that you shouldn't do what you should do when you have a family is stupid.
[QUOTE=prooboo;36798170]He knew the risks, he accepted the possibility of the consequences. The family had themselves to take care of now. Sure, it's heartless, but you make exceptions when it comes to your family. Morality just doesn't apply when you're protecting a family[/QUOTE]
The evil cunt got rescued, was well enough to just walk off, and left him to die. That bitch should have died instead of him.
i wanna punch that family right in the face and force them to drown
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;36798503]Every time I look in the news I keep seeing more and more reasons as to why I should never try to save anyone.[/QUOTE]
That's just stupid. "All news are depressing, so I should be depressed"
This is in China, over there, a lot of things are different. A lot of people only care about themselves.
[QUOTE=The golden;36798285]Are you not getting this?
They were on the verge of NOT having a family. If that man wasn't there they would all be DEAD.[/QUOTE]
That's not their fault
[editline]16th July 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=MountainWatcher;36798577]Morality, by definition, is what should be done, saying that you shouldn't do what you should do when you have a family is stupid.[/QUOTE]
Unless disregarding the traditional pseudo-kantian notion morality is the moral thing to do when you have a family
His family should sue
[QUOTE=prooboo;36798262]Once again: morality doesn't apply when you've got a family.
[editline]16th July 2012[/editline]
It's cold, sure, but you can't be weak in front of your family either.[/QUOTE]
Isn't that what a family is for? People that will care for you when you are not at your highest and will be with you? The family just drove away without giving a shit they were saved
[QUOTE=Feuver;36798605]That's just stupid. "All news are depressing, so I should be depressed"
This is in China, over there, a lot of things are different. A lot of people only care about themselves.[/QUOTE]
It happens all over the place, only about a month ago there was another story about a person trying to return a phone getting mugged and beaten by the people who came to collect it.
[QUOTE=Feuver;36798605]That's just stupid. "All news are depressing, so I should be depressed"
This is in China, over there, a lot of things are different. A lot of people only care about themselves.[/QUOTE]
You're saying it as if only China has this problem.
That said, I agree, while this is depressing news, it should not change your motivation to help others. Just because the world is loaded to the brim with assholes doesn't mean you have to be one.
[QUOTE=Dr. Gestapo;36798540]Are our cultures so different that something like helping people in need (something I like to think is common sense) is considered 'against common sense' by them?[/QUOTE]
It's not really that uncommon in other countries either, just takes a different form :
[url=http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/EMTS-Suspended-After-Leaving-Pregnant-Woman-to-Die-79860937.html]Here[/url]
[url=http://www.examiner.com/article/lifeguard-was-fired-for-helping-save-a-drowning-man-not-his-area]are[/url]
[url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39516346/ns/us_news-life/t/no-pay-no-spray-firefighters-let-home-burn/#.UARu1JKK52Y]few[/url]
[url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8943298/Paramedic-refused-to-carry-dying-girl-over-safety-fears.html#]examples[/url]
[QUOTE=KG_1;36798320]Thats a very vague statement. If morality doesn't apply when you've got a family, then that druggie who murdered other people to get more money for drugs and to pay his X-wife is ok in your book? Think about it, what If someone murdered your family to save there?[/QUOTE]
Oh I'd be pissed. But god knows I'd murder someone else' family to save mine. If you wouldn't, you'd be a terrible father.
China is really fucked up with stuff like this. I remember the incident when some toddler was run over by a van and left to die. She was ignored by 18 (yes, eighteen) fucking passer-bys. The van driver didn't stop either.
I guess, though, this kind of stuff happens everywhere in the world, it's just that events from China rise up to the surface a bit more often.
Maybe the mother tried to drown her kids and herself?
[QUOTE=mopman999;36798645]Isn't that what a family is for? People that will care for you when you are not at your highest and will be with you? The family just drove away without giving a shit they were saved[/QUOTE]
They're not [I]his[/I] family
If I had to save one man who will put his life on the line to save multiple people or a crazy family that has no empathy I would save that one man.
[QUOTE=prooboo;36798614]That's not their fault
[editline]16th July 2012[/editline]
Unless disregarding the traditional pseudo-kantian notion morality is the moral thing to do when you have a family[/QUOTE]
This isn't kantian moral, it's utilitarianism. Your happiness is worth the same as others' and that doesn't change just because you are the one living it.
[QUOTE=prooboo;36798680]They're not [I]his[/I] family[/QUOTE]
Well I worded it wrong, but what you are saying is that even though they aren't part of his family, they shouldn't care at all, and that it was completely acceptable of them to drive away without saving a man who risked his life to save them
[QUOTE=prooboo;36798668]Oh I'd be pissed. But god knows I'd murder someone else' family to save mine. If you wouldn't, you'd be a terrible father.[/QUOTE]
Objectivist alert! Objectivist alert!
[QUOTE=MountainWatcher;36798694]This isn't kantian moral, it's utilitarianism. Your happiness is worth the same as other's and that doesn't change just because you are the one living it.[/QUOTE]
that's why I said pseudo-kantian. People will reason that stealing or murder is always wrong until they need to do it for their family to survive. And that's exactly what they should do. then if pressed on this, they'll become cold and stoic and say they did what they had to do.
[QUOTE=mopman999;36798711]Well I worded it wrong, but what you are saying is that even though they aren't part of his family, they shouldn't care at all, and that it was completely acceptable of them to drive away without saving a man who risked his life to save them[/QUOTE]
I'm saying they have no obligation to help him
[QUOTE=prooboo;36798727]that's why I said pseudo-kantian. People will reason that stealing or murder is always wrong until they need to do it for their family to survive. And that's exactly what they should do. then if pressed on this, they'll become cold and stoic and say they did what they had to do.[/QUOTE]
Even if one of my family was in trouble I would never kill another, no one should have to lose their life for the sake of my problems.
[QUOTE=prooboo;36798680]They're not [I]his[/I] family[/QUOTE]
So then he shouldn't have saved their lives, then.
[QUOTE=prooboo;36798739]I'm saying they have no obligation to help him[/QUOTE]
I'd feel pretty damn obligated to help someone that just fucking saved me from drowning
[QUOTE=prooboo;36798668]Oh I'd be pissed. But god knows I'd murder someone else' family to save mine. If you wouldn't, you'd be a terrible father.[/QUOTE]
Nevermind turns out I'm bickering with a crazy person.
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