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Post by jonren on Jan 15, 2009 10:39:15 GMT
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mids
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Post by mids on Jan 15, 2009 10:44:53 GMT
Poor kid. Not a nice way to go.
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VikingHumpingWitch
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Jan 15, 2009 10:47:18 GMT
Should failure to help a person in danger be a criminal offence in the UK?
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mids
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Post by mids on Jan 15, 2009 10:49:18 GMT
Probably.
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Post by ricklinc on Jan 15, 2009 10:50:08 GMT
Nope. I reserve the right to leave anybody I don't like in any situation that may result in their death or injury. Thingy them. Like a gestating canine.
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Jan 15, 2009 10:51:24 GMT
Was thinking of Boris's injunction to Londoners to stay out of it. I'm not sure I'd want to be criminalised for thinking "Eschew that for a lark, he's got a knife" or whatever.
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Post by ricklinc on Jan 15, 2009 10:58:49 GMT
It's never a short story. You find some kid in trouble, save him, he grows up a bit and kills someone whilst mugging them for their mobile phone. By which time the kid has also fathered a couple of new ones to grow up and do the same.
This is the kind of pessimism that lack of decent society does to me. Nowadays if I read about some kid being let down by social services and being killed I reckon that it's no real loss at all. I don't think I'm being heartless, just pragmatic.
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Post by radge on Jan 15, 2009 12:01:54 GMT
thats what happens when people get drunk
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2009 12:07:35 GMT
Not a nice way to go, but accidents do happen, it's only luck if one survives.
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Post by Libby on Jan 15, 2009 12:52:26 GMT
I think we should have the choice as to whether we help or not, surely that's a basic human right?! The death of the girl was very sad, but i wonder had she been sober/not been drinking, would the outcome have been fatal?! Having said that, it's a tragedy - her poor family. I bet her friends feel guilty too.
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Post by voice on Jan 16, 2009 17:00:07 GMT
brought it on herself, she bears the responsibility, it cant be right to expect others to risk their lives to save the stupid
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