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In Reply to: A post about nothing posted by Dan Gunther and Melanie Stabs on May 14, 1998 at 22:49:17:

I think that they brought up a very interesting thought. In our society we are taught to do nothing. People always say "don't get involved. it's not your problem." It is understandable that some people may want to do things for themselves. But what about those people who can't always do things for themselves.

I read somewhere that if a woman is being attacked, she is supposed to yell
"fire!" because she will have a better chance of someone coming to her aid than if she yells "help" or "rape." That's really sad.

A girl I know grew up in downtown Minneapolis. She was telling us this story about something that had happened to her and her boyfriend not too long ago.
They were sitting in their apartment listening to music and she thought that she heard a scream. At first her boyfriend didn't hear it. She went out the door to take a look, but she saw nothing. They heard the scream again and decided that some people were just fooling around. She told me how in Minneapolis, people always go to the door or window to watch. They don't call the police, so she didn't. The next morning on the news they saw that a woman had been stabbed to death in their apartment building. Guess what she said? "whoops." I would have felt overwhelmingly guilty about that. But she was conditioned to ignore things like that.

There is a ray of hope. I saw a man in a wheelchair struggling to open the doors. Another man came rushing right over to give him a hand. Not everyone is still Chilled from the eighties. Maybe we'll learn to incorporate some ideas about love and kindness from the sixties into our future.

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: I think that they brought up a very interesting thought. In our society we are taught to do nothing. People always say "don't get involved. it's not your problem." It is understandable that some people may want to do things for themselves. But what about those people who can't always do things for themselves. : I read somewhere that if a woman is being attacked, she is supposed to yell : "fire!" because she will have a better chance of someone coming to her aid than if she yells "help" or "rape." That's really sad. : A girl I know grew up in downtown Minneapolis. She was telling us this story about something that had happened to her and her boyfriend not too long ago. : They were sitting in their apartment listening to music and she thought that she heard a scream. At first her boyfriend didn't hear it. She went out the door to take a look, but she saw nothing. They heard the scream again and decided that some people were just fooling around. She told me how in Minneapolis, people always go to the door or window to watch. They don't call the police, so she didn't. The next morning on the news they saw that a woman had been stabbed to death in their apartment building. Guess what she said? "whoops." I would have felt overwhelmingly guilty about that. But she was conditioned to ignore things like that. : There is a ray of hope. I saw a man in a wheelchair struggling to open the doors. Another man came rushing right over to give him a hand. Not everyone is still Chilled from the eighties. Maybe we'll learn to incorporate some ideas about love and kindness from the sixties into our future.

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