On air: Does city-living remove the Good Samaritan in us?
| 14:00 UK time, Tuesday, 27 April 2010
At least in New York after he came to the aid of a woman being attacked. Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax was stabbed when he tried to help. It was an hour and a half before someone contacted emergency services. He bled to death on the pavement.
says: "this is just a sick cold society...where people are scared of everyone" and Gustav comments: "Unfortunately many people still figure that "getting involved" can lead only to trouble".
thinks common decency is apparently not enough to help a fellow human in need and asks if there should be a legal duty to rescue.
Do we have a duty to be Good Samaritans?
LIVE PRODUCTION UPDATES
Nuala 17:04 Chris Moss from Time Out is on his way over to Bush House to us, has lived in Buenos Aires and London and will compare them.
Claudia, 16.55: Kjell in Sweden thinks how somebody is dressed could influence whether you'd help them or not.
Claudia, 16.49: Farnie in Cape Town, Jaime in Bogota and Jacqueline in Jamaica would all help a stranger but only in certain circumstances. For example, the location would influence them: whether it was a 'safe' part of the city or not. They'll all be on the show to talk about this later.
Nuala 16:38 Jon Ramer is working to make cities more compassionate, he thinks Seattle has a great history of social justice.
Nuala 16:34 Patrick Markee from Coalition for the Homeless in NYC, wouldn't agree that NYers are not compassionate.
Nuala, 15:11 Errol Louis is joining us tonight, he's a columnist and talk show host in New York, thinks if you checked on every person that was collapsed on the pavements of NY, you wouldn't have time to do much else with your day.
Claudia, 14.47: lost his faith in London when nobody intervened as he was racially abused on a bus.
Krupa, 14.41: Another example of the bystander effect. Young girl allegedly .
Krupa, 14.33: Here's more on the
Krupa, 14.25: Would you help a stranger? Channel 4 in the UK did a documentary on this. You can watch it .
Krupa, 14.13: Spotted where people share their stories about helping each other.
