TX - Hero of fiery crash shocked by onlookers taking photos

Blondie in Spokane said:

This is such a sad example of society anymore.....everyone is too busy taking photos/filming videos to help a dying person. I can't believe what this world is coming to.

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JSinUK said:

I have what has elsewhere proven to be a controvertial opinion as to why society is breeding ghouls like this. All over the internet there exists gruesome imagery of people dying and being killed in horrific ways. So called "gore sites" have developed to cater to people's desire to watch such barbarity. This has inevitably had the effect of desensitising many people to the true horor of such things, which are reduced to mere viewing spectacles, things to be looked at and enjoyed in whatever way. Unless there is some emotional connection with the victim, many people have become too desensitised to care all that much anymore, or to even recognise the moral questionability of watching someone's son or daughter dying horribly for their viewing interest. Once some people have the mindset that the deaths of absolute strangers are little more than spectacles to be watched for pleasure or simple curiosity, then when they stumble across something awful in real life, their natural response is to film rather than help. Unless they are emotionally connected to the victim, it is just another awful death to put out there on film, kudos for themselves for posting it. Or just something to show their friends. Too many people have become too desensitised to the depraved immorality of thinking this way.

I have been attacked elsewhere for voicing this honest opinion, mostly by people who themselves watch this stuff and resent my inference that there may be anything immoral about doing so. And my belief that such imagery is as unhealthy for society as child *advertiser censored*, and ought to have the same legal status, has often been regarded as controvertial. But consider this.....

There is a highly graphic video out there - even on Youtube - showing a 16 year old girl being burned alive by a vigilante mob. Now if that girl were performing sexually in any way it would rightly be totally illegal. So how can it be ok to have videos of such minors being tortured to death legally available? There is a massive morality issue - a massive right versus wrong issue - here. Too many people have become too desensitised to such barbarity and view it as little more than entertainment on some level.

And the legality and acceptance of such things is turning too many people into ghouls whose first reaction - when they come across a woman trapped in a burning car and about to be burned alive - is to film rather than help. And that is a terrible indictment upon our societies.

I also believe that refusing to assist someone in mortal danger should itself perhaps be a criminal offense.

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zwiebel said:

When Kevin Hargrove and his fiancee drove past a crashed pickup in Colleyville, Texas, Saturday and saw it glowing, he leapt into action. After pulling the driver clear and being told the man's wife was inside, he rushed back to try and save her too.

With the truck now blazing and the woman screaming for help, he called out desperately for a knife to free her from her seatbelt, or a fire extinguisher. He says he was shocked to find only people standing filming, and taking photos.

Another driver did stop and produce an extinguisher but by then it was too late as the pickup was an inferno. Kevin has cut hands but is otherwise physically okay. The driver of the pickup, 43-year-old Juan Salinas, is to be charged with intoxicated manslaughter for the death of his wife, Elva Salinas.

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2015/06/08/...goes-back-for-passenger/#.VXbz5hUNF_8.twitter

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JSinUK said:

I have what has elsewhere proven to be a controvertial opinion as to why society is breeding ghouls like this. All over the internet there exists gruesome imagery of people dying and being killed in horrific ways. So called "gore sites" have developed to cater to people's desire to watch such barbarity. This has inevitably had the effect of desensitising many people to the true horor of such things, which are reduced to mere viewing spectacles, things to be looked at and enjoyed in whatever way.

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