I rarely post in his forum but here are my zwei pfennige.
Since moving tot hte United States from my once vaunted Germany I became a law enforcement officer. That notwithstanding I can say wholeheartedly that those who see crimes and do not stop them or attempt to stop them are worthy of little more than an excrutiating fate.
In the culture of the time, far too often people who try tio help are castigated for not being certified or sued because they make a mistake to say nothing of the fact that without their intervention the man now suing would not be alive at all. Crime is crime and while there are laudable criminals, an almost respectable and nearly extinct caste, those who wont hurt a lady and who rob only banks et al, it is still illegal.
I for one could not walk down the street, hear a fraulein being raped, and not charge to her rescue and my own impending fate. Any man who can walk by a victim screaming for help and return to his copy of
American Capitalist Weekly or
Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Destitue First Responders is not worthy of such a name - -he is a trues untermensch - -truly sumhuman. Men are those who foresake their own wellbeing for the wellbeing of others. Selflessness is one of the few ultimately noble ends all true men aspire to.
To witness a crime and not report it makes you just as guilty as the man who stole it. These are the people who think not of how they would feel were it their ornaments being stolen. This is the same lot that will not yield to a police cruiser or fire truck but are the first oines to scream where have you been when their houses have burnt to the ground.
America exists in a culture where to do right is to place yourself under the guns of ambitions jackals whose only mantle is greed. In germany, stupid lawsuits are filed constinuessly 0 0as much as here -= but the court has the right to sue this person for wasting the state's time. For too often are people blamed for helping. I believe that time has come to send a message to lawyers and ambulance chasers, those who sue police because they used excessive force to defend themselves or shot a man who had just killed seventy unarmed women. Far too often we consider the immediate victim rather than his owjn victims who no longer have a voice.
I can only suggest that others follow the dictum put forth almost three hundred years ago by Louis XIV - -remember not what you are killing, but what you are allowing to live.
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