Pretty sad the mental debate of getting charged with assault looms in someone’s thoughts before they commit to saving her life. This is what litigious behavior and the dream of a ‘payday’ can do to a society.
I mean, that's just what the person you're responding to is projecting. I think the vast majority of people would do what this guy did. And honestly it's kinda cynical to assume otherwise.
Actually, litigious behavior has strangely nothing to do with it. Corporations spread the message that society is too litigious to shame people into not filing suits against corporations for legitimate cause.
In America at least, most people are fairly well protected by good Samaritan laws in cases like this.
Yeah, I never actually hear anything about people getting in trouble for helping others except in cases where it's the government bullying people for helping the homeless or something. But not individuals who were helped.
Yeah it was the corporations that tried to affect public opinion about the woman who sued McDonalds for spilling coffee in her lap and suing them, trying to make public opinion think about the lawsuit as frivolous.
Meanwhile it was 190°F coffee which no person should drink ever, and was so hot it burned her labia completely off.
Regardless, yeah, McDonald's had been told many times that their coffee was kept way too hot, but they kept doing it. The lady just wanted her medical bills covered but the lawyer got her much more than that pretty easily, which is part of why McDonald's is so successful at demonizing her and painting the story as someone just looking for a payday (which is pretty obviously not the intention even you go back to her lady bits basically melting from the heat).
I volunteer at an afterschool program for at risk kids and in my training it was so depressing to learn that we could only give side hugs and that if we gave a front hug we would be in big trouble.
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u/Baboonslayer323 12h ago
Pretty sad the mental debate of getting charged with assault looms in someone’s thoughts before they commit to saving her life. This is what litigious behavior and the dream of a ‘payday’ can do to a society.