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WAL-MART EMPLOYEE TRAMPLED TO DEATH:::November 29, 2008 New York.
i agree that this is a very tragic accident. this is terrible, but you cant seriously tell me that any one of us is going to walk away being truely perminantly touched. this may seem cold, but in a month the feelings will fade. i wonder if you even now, could remember the deceased's name?
soon, his death will solely be a statistic. sure, you put on your sad face, and feel some sympathy, but how real is that sympathy?

""yes that was a tragedy, it shouldnt have happened.poor unfortunate soul. what a terrible thing to happen, think of his family... if i was there, i would have stopped, those people who trampled him are hearless and solely ruled by greed for fake consumer items""
feelings like the above went through many a head, including mine during class, and many people felt strongly about the death.
but you go back to your happy little life easily and dont spare another thought to Mr. Damour. the truth about life is that things like this happen every day. we can not even begin to properly feel the devistation that could be felt.

many people looked down on the tramplors. you assume the best of yourself, thinking that you would, of corse, stopped to save him. when in reality ask yourself again. would you?

i can sympathize with the mob at the scene. they were not thinking "oh look, an man on the floor, i will continue to race on, nevermind if i happen to step on him" they were most likely focused on their goal item(s) and much like driving on the highway, when you are concentrated on what is to come, you may miss the many small dead rodent carcasses at the sides of the road. or in the middle of the road. it is just a nameless lump between you and your goal, and it can be overpassed easily, without sparing much thought.

these crowd members were not looking to harm the man, they might not have even noticed him.i also think that many of the crowd members just assumed he would be helped by someone else. this shruging of athority and responcibility is what they should be charged for, not murder. they all assume that someone else will help him, so they continue on.

this is much like the example neuzil has mentioned before. there is a woman who is attacked in a street sorrounded by apartments. her attacker retreats, fearing being heard, which he was, because there were many witnesses to the attack in the sorrounding buildings. and yet no one calls 911. they all assume someone else will call it in, and the attack goes unreported and no one goes out to help the woman. stuck in harms way, the woman can not get help, and the attacker comes back, and this time kills her. the witnesses should not be tried for murder, just because they didnt call 911, but they should take some blaim. this too was a tragic event. no one allerted athorities because they assumed someone else would take the innitiative. back to wal mart, the members of the crowd may have shirked the responcibility of helping, thinking someone 'better qualified' would help soon.

and ofcorse, this is assuming that the members of the crowd were even really in control of their own actions. it is possible that the surge of the crowd prevented them from properly controling their actions.

all in all, i do not think that everyone who so much as steped on Mr. Damour should be prosecuted. this was an accident, and since it was on such a large scale, it should not be treated as a murder. i hope i made you think more. has this really affected you? will you remember it in months even years to come? and if it did affect you, what are you going to do with that new knowledge? this story certinly made me think.

copying morals

we lie, cheat, and steal. i cant say i haven't, and neither can anyone else alive. well, unless there is still a bubble boy out there... if so, im rather interested to meet him.

moral standards are definatly changing, and judging one moral code with another is rather dicey. morals are created by the society who follow them, and as the hoi polloi change so will the moral standards. who are we to say what is right anyways? the morals of as recently as last century are now considered grotesque, and who can say which of our standards will be gawked at by future generations. also, by having an existing moral code that is widely agreed upon, yes, we create stability and guidelines, but we also stifle progression and individuality. many people accept the morals of society without really stopping to think about what they mean. we accept the values as right because that is what everyone else accepts and has accepted.
i believe that more people should take the time to cultivate their own beliefs and morals, not follow the norm. think for yourself people.

but then again, if you do not have the courage to do so, your loss.

back to copying. i personally do not have any problem with it. i admitt i am being rather selfish in saying this, but i dont mind when people copy. when i do not do the work and copy i realize what i am doing and i would normally go back and make sure i do understand what i hurridly copied earlier. moreover, if they choose to work off others and not learn it themselves, all the more chance i will advance ahead of them when i do the work. its not hurting me when they are not learning. all the better for me to triumph with.

but i can sympathize with those i see in the halls copying, and since there isnt curve grading here, it does not affect me much. i do it, you do it, we let it happen. thats life.