This can be interpreted anywhere in the World and is certainly not closed to the UK.

So what would you do in any given situation?

Moss

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"So what would you do in any given situation?"

Simple answer ...... the right thing, hopefully.

Can't make a judgement about any of the above individuals or situations, as I wasn't there. Null vote, sorry.

Never heard of them.

Not a particularly logical or interesting or relevant poll.

This can be interpreted anywhere in the World

I'm just off to get a comment from the junta in Myanmar - I'll get right back to you with their thoughts...

Simple answer ...... the right thing, hopefully.

Can't make a judgement about any of the above individuals or situations, as I wasn't there. Null vote, sorry.

I hope we would all do the right thing, sadly this is not often the case.

I am not sure the particular characters in the poll were talking about any particular occurrence, but on the 'Samaritan thing', as a whole, I just think that some of their statements, were particularly worrisome.

Never heard of them.

I agree some of them are quite obscure, however I did generalise the whole issue, so as to circumvent not reading the article if you didn't want to.

Not a particularly logical or interesting or relevant poll.

:D Although I am not sure that others will understand our particular humour on this one

I'm just off to get a comment from the junta in Myanmar - I'll get right back to you with their thoughts...

Hey Ping thanks for your efforts above and beyond the call of duty, me thinks, however I feel you may have your work cut out for you, so your thoughts are all I desire

Thanks for the responses,

Moss

Simple answer ...... the right thing, hopefully.

Can't make a judgement about any of the above individuals or situations, as I wasn't there. Null vote, sorry.

I hope we would all do the right thing, sadly this is not often the case.

But good acts are performed frequently every day.

For example, we had a soi dog that would hang around the ex-pat bar, he looked old, he looked haggard and he had no hair, but he had a collar on, so he must have belonged to somebody at one time.

Big Colin bought a course of injections for him (to kill the skin mites) a wacking 60 Baht (it took three of us to hold him down at first) within two months he looked like a white Lionel Richie, as when he started to grow hair that's what colour it was. Turns out that he has a lovely temperament and he can't be more than two years old (we knew he was a nice dog, but he was skittish from previous mistreatment)

Brummy Dave adopted him two weeks ago and he is as happy as larry (went to see him last Friday)

Do acts like that make the news, no they don't, outside this small arena, who has heard of Big Col, Brummy Dave or Me ..... no one.... we don't sell papers.

Charitable acts happen every minute of every day all over the world .... for no other reason than 'it's the right thing to do' (read into that statement what you will)

(btw ... his first name was sproket, as he looked like the dog from Fraggle Rock, but as Dave looks like Tin Tin, he is now called Snowy)

Nice story Thad - reminds me of the kitty rescue (was that Naam?) and the good work being done by November Rose.

"So what would you do in any given situation?" Simple answer ...... the right thing, hopefully.

I don't think you can say more than that....

....so I won't.

Interestingly the link referred to people talking about getting involved in the actual assault. Whereas the good Samaritan story is where the Samaritan finds the 'victim' after the event. Okay the basic principle of helping someone, ie being a neighbour to them, is the same.

"A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. 'Look after him,' he said, 'and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have."

It's a well known oft quoted story.

I would like to think that most people were good Samaritans as the bible taught us.

Intervening in the sort of street violence that occurs in the UK these days is more like being a vigilante, and who can tell if you would put yourself at risk until the time came.

I'm a big guy and would like to think I could intervene and stop something terrible from happening if I was so unfortunate as to see that but when so many people get tooled up for fights these days, its not that simple.