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Someone knocks on your door, bleeding from a wound on their arm. Are the a person in need or an armed assailant waiting to gain entry into your home? A person
by vageli 9y ago
Someone knocks on your door, bleeding from a wound on their arm. Are the a person in need or an armed assailant waiting to gain entry into your home?
A person flagging down help on the side of the road. Are they going to do something while you're in a vulnerable position changing a tire?
Most any interactions where "help" is more than verbal information transfer usually lead to situations where the helping party is put into a position of vulnerability. To help someone is to literally "go out on a limb" i.e. put yourself in a precarious position.
- bmpafa 9y ago^ this. also, there's an entire family of laws[1] designed to protect people from certain risks they take on when they decide to help someone in dire need. These are all extreme examples, but I think the parent post example (not giving feedback b/c of liability issues) is cut from the same cloth. Businesses take liability risks day in & day out. For some, the calculus concludes that (practically) selfless gestures, like giving applicants feedback, aren't worth that risk. That, imo, is a shame. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Samaritan_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Samaritan_law
- cc439 9y ago>A person flagging down help on the side of the road. Are they going to do something while you're in a vulnerable position changing a tire? There have been at least 2-3 different murderers who have used that technique in my local area within the last 5 years alone.It's just so wrong that I can't even wrap my head around it.