Two news stories for you today:
The first is a heart-warming video in which a dog gets hit by 2 cars in the middle of a busy highway in Chile, and another dog runs out into the middle of the busy street and pulls the injured dog to safety. Both dogs survived.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofpYRITtLSg
(scroll down...)
The second is a heart-breaking article about a video caught by a security camera in China. The video shows a two-year old girl getting hit by TWO cars, and then 18 people walking by, ignoring her and letting her bleed to death. Some of the passersby even had to swerve their motorbikes around her to get by. The 19th person was a peasant woman who was collecting trash from the streets. She pulled the girl to the side of the road and contacted the girl's mother. The baby died in the hospital early Friday morning.
I have linked you the article, but I am NOT recommending you watch the video. I couldn't even watch it myself.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-10/21/c_131204564.htm
In light of these two recent incidents, what conclusions can we draw about humanity?
Have we come to a point where dogs have a higher morality than humans?
Who or what is to blame for the hardness of people's hearts in a situation like this?
Is it hunger for money? Is it the government for not making laws to protect people who help others? Is it the fault of an atheistic communist society that has rejected the beliefs of such moral religions as Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism?
Please come to class Thursday ready to debate these topics and ask questions of your own.
-Brian
It's pretty hard to say. In Korea, the things like second article is being issued whether help or not, because sometimes a rescuer get sued by victim as a sexual harrassment.
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