Saturday, April 24, 2010

Blaming the (almost) victim

As bad as this is, I fail to see why they don't make a bigger deal about the fact that the woman he helped left him like that first. In my mind, she has the most responsibility (after the actual attacker, obviously) since she would have at least known the attacker had a knife. It is also possible she witnessed the stabbing. Either way, we know she had a cell phone; she should have called in the incident while running away if she was so scared.

Playing Devil's Advocate, it can sometimes be hard to know when someone on the street needs help. I once called 911 for a homeless man I watched go down on the street, when I talked to him he seemed indifferent but when the EMTs arrived he got up and started reacting violently. Citylife may make us hard, but it is normally because we have life a life which makes us so

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