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1. Some other thoughts...

   As I read this, I thought, "I would just go stand there, waving automobile traffic around him, and call 911. This seemed the obvious action to me. We are told on TV and radio, "DON'T move an injured person!" because the person might be injured, severely, by uneducated movement of his body. But stand there waving away other cars?---easy! Some time back, at a club party, I was talking with someone when two large paintings were accidently knocked off the wall behind us. We got up, I checked the scene and started telling people how to help me, everyone else staying out of the way. The problem was corrected, the club owner none the wiser (no damage occurred), in less than two minutes. I had never seen this problem before, and knew nothing of the situation---I just did what I needed to do. My brother was telling me about "How to be an Alpha Male" books he was reading. He had decided to forget about the idea, and just be himself. As he talked, I realized a fake alpha-male would have just stood there looking at the paintings wondering when someone (someone else that is) would repair the situation. At the time, I thought my action perfectly normal. I mention all this because we, in the U. S. anyway, are constantly being bombarded with "do this!" and "do that!" commands from just about every direction. This means most people will, unknowingly, wait for "the appropriate command" before they do something, not realizing, in this instance, the command has to come from within themselves. I lived in a bad part of San Francisco. I was using a large push cart with milk-crates on it. As I got to the other side of the street, a front wheel hit a big hole in the pavement. The push cart stopped on a dime, but the milk-crates did not. There were LPs and videocassettes just about everywhere it seemed. People who had crossed at the same time stopped to put things in the crates and put the crates back on the cart. So, it depends on the situation, big or small, easy to understand or not, and of course, what is the risk of doing something wrong? I have zero medical ability. My possible benefit to him: Zero. Probability of damaging him: Very high. Cost to him of damage from my 'help': Extremely high. Conclusion: Don't touch. I have a cell phone. I can call 911. Probability of damage to him from my using the cell phone: Zero. The benefit to him if I use the phone: Extremely high. The cost to me to use the phone: Nearly zero. Conclusion: Telephone the 911 system. I do not "think" all this, it happens completely automatically. As an engineer, I deal with risks and probabilities very frequently. This situation and that of the paintings calls for Critical Thinking. Critical Thinking has, I believe, been dropped from the few college curricula which required it. Critical Thinking should be taught all through grade- and high-school! I APOLOGIZE! THE FORMATTING COMMANDS REFUSE TO WORK (according to the preview)!! I have the original, in case you would like a copy of it e-mailed to you.

   3 months, 2 weeks ago In response to Hit and Run: Without a Compass

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