Last week’s tragedy showed something that continues to be lacking nowadays, and it has nothing to with racism – as certain big city news media and columnists seem to believe.
It has to do with disturbing trend in society where people either don’t want to get involved when something happens. Whether its fear or thinking they can’t help or simply an attitude of not wanting to be bothered by getting involved, more people are not helping those that need it.
That isn’t to say the outcome of last Tuesday’s incident would have been any different if someone would have stopped sooner.
However, have we become such a busy, callous and uncaring society today that even pulling over to call 911 is too much for some people?
Does society place too much emphasis on thinking that someone else will do it, so I won’t?
Sure, upon learning of the boy’s death many in the community – likely even those that drove by that night and didn’t stop or may not have even recognized someone needed help – jumped up in outrage over the incident plus offered up sympathy to the family.
But should that absolve us from the responsibility to help in the future?
What if it was you or someone you knew? Wouldn’t you want someone to help then?
