A strange event occurred. My friend and I were walking and talking when a stranger asked him if he had a tissue. He said no (I said no too) and when she went away he pulls out a handkerchief and blows his nose in it. I ask him why he didn't offer his hanky, to which he states that she might have had oral herpes. I should have let it drop at that but pressed him that he should have offered. Eventually it comes out that he wasn't necessarily afraid of getting herpes as much as that she would try to sue him for giving her herpes in the case that he would get it from her. He said he read a story about some mother accusing a random person who gave her son a bandaide because he later got an infection and she successfully sued her. Do you go through similar thought processes when you see someone in need of help?
Don't help, it's a trap?
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I once let a homeless lady use my cell phone to call her family. Only i had to hold the cell phone.. she said that she could hold it herself to which I replied, "I'm nice but I'm not crazy."
I guess I'm cynically polite?
I guess I'm cynically polite?
I hate this kind of behaviour. I hate the fact that people don't help anymore because they're afraid of lawsuits but I naturally hate the people who sue the helpful ones even more. They were just trying to help. If that guy didn't push you out of the speeding car's way and accidentily bruised your knee you would have been dead, okay? You owe him your life but instead of thanking him you're going to ***** to a judge why you're going to be limping a bit for one week? COME ON!
Always help out people in need. You never know if you have been transported into a disneyesque alternate universe where every help asking stranger is a billionaire who vowed to give his fortune to one kind enough to help or a fairy giving you three free wishes.
However never help anybody if it involves bodily fluids because today's society is nuts and lawyers are thriving on the idiots that sue people because they happened to sneeze 3 feet away from them and they catch a cold the next day.
However never help anybody if it involves bodily fluids because today's society is nuts and lawyers are thriving on the idiots that sue people because they happened to sneeze 3 feet away from them and they catch a cold the next day.
Some less fortunate folks and those that have done good things in the past deserve help, but unless it's apparent that they're going through tough times, I'm generally indifferent. I try to at least enforce positive karma.
Then again, the great American way is now to sue the nearest person with a cold, so in most cases, to quote a certain admiral of a certain resistance operation...
IT'S A TRAP!
Then again, the great American way is now to sue the nearest person with a cold, so in most cases, to quote a certain admiral of a certain resistance operation...
IT'S A TRAP!
I'll try to help when I can, but I don't give out money. I can't even give you a good reason why, really, I just don't.
I'll never forget the evening a girl asked me for some cash for the bus... and her turning down the spare bus ticket I offered her instead. That day I became a tad more cynical.
-- Steve
I'll never forget the evening a girl asked me for some cash for the bus... and her turning down the spare bus ticket I offered her instead. That day I became a tad more cynical.
-- Steve
I am fortunate enough to live in the UK.
Here people thank you for helping them, it's something I rather like about my country.
Here people thank you for helping them, it's something I rather like about my country.
Someone with a cold asked me for a tissue once, in reply I took a tissue out blew my nose and told them I didn't have one.
I have no fear of getting sued because I don't live in America with its cooky crazy lawsuits but I am a massive bastard who enjoys Human suffering
I have no fear of getting sued because I don't live in America with its cooky crazy lawsuits but I am a massive bastard who enjoys Human suffering
Oh I help especially with small-change issues. Out of all financial difficulties, what's the problem with giving a guy a few quid? He might actually want to buy a sandwich with it to stave off hunger another night. You certainly can afford it and would hardly notice it if it just disappeared.
I live in the Netherlands so apart from the occasional guy asking me for a cigarette, directions or money because he's 'having a hard time', I don't get a lot of requests for favours. Even if I did our judges would laugh at the person trying to sue me for helping them.fix-the-spade said:
I just get pissed when I hear those stories from people who got sued because they helped someone who needed it, and therefore the whole community decides not to help anyone who is e.g. choking on a piece of toast in a diner.
There is a homeless man that lives around this one strip mall downtown, where all the campus kids usually hang out. Every Thursday night, he will go into the Mongollian Grill in that plaza and ask every single person for some change. Everybody usually says no, but I was in that situation one time, when, as he was leaving, I said "Damn homeless people..." just a little too loudly. My friend told me that he heard me, but I just replied in the same tone "Nothing wrong with being honest". Aaa that was a good night...