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Forum: General
Thread (Discussion): Killing the Good Samaritan
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Message 120374 (In Reply to Message 120324)
Good Samaritans?
Posted by marta
on Oct 24, 2003 12:27 AM | Also by marta
| Gender: Female,
Age Bracket: 30 - 39,
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I've thought about this thread a lot: about the story the original post told, but also with respect to other posters here at sexcriminals.com who have been falsely accused of sexual offenses, who have been the victims of sexual offenses, or who have had children who are the victims of sexual offenses.
Common to all of these stories is a person who has not adequately protected him/herself/others against the possibility that the people around him/her have very different ideas (crazy/lacking in sound judgment/uninformed) about what IS going on, and about how things should happen in future.
While I can understand people lamenting the loss of a time when people seemed to be able to trust each other more, I'm not convinced such a time ever existed, or, at the very least, that it existed exactly how people might think it did. I don't think it was ever a wise idea to rely on others to be generous and good-natured, at least unless one knew them very well, and unless the reliance would not result in significant consequences if found to be groundless.
In the case that started this thread, I think the girl seemed crazy, but I don't know the whole story. What I do know is that even if I (a woman) were in the same circumstances as the male student, I wouldn't have looked up the girl's phone number. Part of this would have been laziness, but the other half would have been due to my awareness of the fact that people in general are spooked out by people they don't know having their contact information. When you add this to the fact that it would have been MUCH simpler just to drop the I.D. off with an R.A. or at the university's security office, the actions of the student in the article seem even less wise, not because I'm suspicious of him, but because I wonder at his lack of self-preservatory sense.
In my mind, it's a bit of a sad story, but not wholly unforeseeable, nor indicative of some horrible trend in society.
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Message 120324
Excellent
Posted by orolan
on Oct 22, 2003 04:23 PM | Also by orolan
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Age Bracket: 40 - 49,
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120297, lj, Oct 22, 2003 02:18 AM [An interesting read!]
120306, SurvivorForever, Oct 22, 2003 05:20 AM [How True!]
120324, orolan, Oct 22, 2003 04:23 PM [Excellent]
120374, marta, Oct 24, 2003 12:27 AM [Good Samaritans?]
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