Being brave and being stupid can happen at the same time.

Quote - I saw a bunch of people, including guys standing there just watching like it was some circus side show!I saw a bunch of people, including guys standing there just watching like it was some circus side show!

Sadly, people don't care anymore.  They aren't brought up to care, they aren't encouraged to care, and if they care the wrong way they're getting sued.  We live in a society with a lot of people but little compassion.

Quote - He said "I am the police!"

If this had been in the US and a security guard did that, he could have been charged with impersonating an officer of the law...  Seems like all rent-a-cops are stupid and on power-trips.

Quote - I just knew that I couldn't stand there and watch a woman getting beaten up.

I had something written in response to that, but that's a whole can of worms I don't want to open publically on the forums.

Anyways without seeing all of it, I think that yes you did the right thing by trying to stop the security guard.  If she was resisting him, he might have had a little ability to restrain her (not sure because Canada's laws might be different) but causing a dislocation is going too far unless that person is actively trying to hurt you.

RobynsVeil, it isn't cowardace that caused the people to stand by, it is apathy.  We live in an age were people don't care, not an age where people are cowards.  In the US we are barely teaching our kids to read and write (40% drop out rate in some areas), much less right and wrong.  Now if we were a more libertarian society and taught to rely on ourselves and help our neighbors, then it would be a case of cowardace.  However we live in a society that's becoming socialist and basically when we see something wrong, it's someone else's problem; it's society's problem not ours.

In other words we aren't being taught to be the good samuritian, we are letting ourselves become a me-first society that doesn't want to deal with that guy on the road who needs help.

WARK!

Thus Spoketh Winterclaw: a blog about a Winterclaw who speaks from time to time.

 

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