| json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["Can","you","really","help","someone","you","don't","know","on","the","street"],"appCategory":"Can","appTitle":"Can you really help some one you don't know on the street?","appBody":"<p>Definitely. Definitely I can. I mean yes I know everybody talks about how it is dangerous to help people nowadays sometimes. In fact I just read something now as I was about to answer this question; I read a meme that says \"be careful of the dogs you feed on the street, some are just wanting to be fed so that they can bite you.\" Just before I saw this question I read that.</p><p>And yes there is of course an atom of truth in it. There really are some people out there who are actually wanting to hurt you. Some are really literally laying on the streets waiting for you to help them so that they can rob you on a highway or some just to get in your life and con you. And yes a lot of different terrible shits can happen helping strangers, and we hear real stories about this all the time. Of course this can make you start to lose faith in humanity But I'll like to say that this should never stop us from helping out someone in need.</p><p>Altruism is still a very very remarkable and attractive trait to have. And it does have its advantages. </p><p>And then consider the fact that there really are people in need in this life; good people! And most of the times people in need are only just people in need; they're not faking of fronting or trying to hurt you or anything. They just really need your help and probably have their whole survival depending on whether you help them or not. </p><p>And what kind of life would it be when everybody decides that, you know, because there are some people who are out there to hurt us by pretending they need our helps we'll all decide to stop helping people from now on forever and ever. You'll agree with me that the world wouldn't be such a very happy place or such an attractive place to live in if this ever happens. </p><p>There is a certain kind of beauty in helping others. There is a sublime feeling that one gets from performing such act. I don't know if it's everybody or just myself--but I'm pretty sure it's not just myself--that when I find somebody in need and I choose to help that person and I see the happiness on that person's face I also get a certain kind happiness that knows no bound from the act.</p><p>And of course when you see somebody that you don't even know helping out a stranger on the street, there is definitely a joy that you get from it and a believe that you get from it that humanity really is a beautiful race after all, and life really is what living among these beautiful people.</p><p>And then again consider a situation where everybody stop helping people and you stop helping people because everybody is wicked and hypothetically you get into a situation where you need help. Wouldn't you want somebody, maybe even a stranger, to help you? </p><p>Wouldn't you feel hurt and disappointed and even angered to an extent if nobody chooses to come to your aid in this case just because there are some few bad people out there?</p><p>This is why regardless of the situation and of the purported danger that everybody speaks about if I see somebody on the street or a stranger that I don't know I will still try my best to help them. </p><p>I mean yes in the end it all boils down to risk assessment and using your brain of course, and there are some obvious signs and some subtle ones too that a person can be on the look out for to determine when/if a person really is in need of help or just wanting to scam or hurt. </p><p>But in the beginning I will never set my default thought to be in the line of \"everyone is terrible and no one is worth helping\". </p><p>No. I will choose to believe in the goodness of the human heart and make THAT my default setting. And if that feeling is trumped in the end, well then on to the next one I go. </p><p>Cheers and have a nice day.</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"fkaphx88x","appParentAuthor":"maxwellnewlife7","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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