Little Kiki died. She could have done with some help

last SG · 2005-10-31T11:09:27+00:00

why ??? I want to add you to invitation list ...

shinta SG

Sad

everywhere's the same... there are selfish ppl around.. movin outside of sg won't help..

it's how u're gg to teach n influence ur child that matters

[email protected] SG

just because u can self help doesn't mean others can. just because we all should know doesn't mean others can don't help. whats wrong with asking for a more humane society? if we don't ask, should we just let it slide back into 2005 B.C.? Sinagapore is already halfway there anyways. Maybe I shouldn't bother! Im not obliged to care about singapore's society anyways.

a_splash SG

sigh.....

[email protected] SG

funnily. people here seem more willing to help a stranger in need!

won't help? i think it will. less selfish people around, hence less selfish society. it helps a lot indeed.

mistyblue SG

enlighten and graceious society? So why did you want to stay in UK instead of coming back? Push factors in sg is so numerous that people who left don't mind being called quitters!
sg is full of the new-rich with a shallow history and not much of culture to talk about. Everything that happens, it all comes from top down. Don't blame the people at the bottom of the social ladder for their attitude as this is strongly influenced from the policies enforced with no much flexiblilty from top mdown

Ppl adopted apathy as a means as the law is not going to be flexible. Say the taxi picked up the mother/daughter and started to speed.
- Its possible that other cars do not give way and the taxi gets into an accident. Then what? The cab company and the cab driver are penalized.
- Its possible the police stop the taxi for speeding and the poor cabby has to pay a fine and put his livelihood on the chopping block and looses his license.
- Say the doctors give up saving another critical fellow in the hospital to save this girl. Then the other fellow died and the family from the dead writes in and condamn the woman and her daughter.

Say if the cab or police man help but drive into a traffic jam, then should all the others be blamed for the issue. Its all hard decisions and really no one is obligated to help another person if its not within their means. And as I said, cabs =/= ambulance. They are a profit making entity, and they do not service the public as would a ambulance.
Everything is a judgement call. And the mother also made a bad judgement call. The writer worse still wrote something so flaming should also think about his actions.

I would say those in the public service should since they are public service. But to blame society as being apathy for not helping. Then I've got nothing to say.

Kosovo was having a civil war. they asked for help but no country stepped forward. But any oil producing country ask for help. Everyone fight tooth and nail to go in and grab a piece of the action.

shinta SG

there's nth wrong with saying that...

but what i see is ppl blaming the taxi driver blaming the policeman for the death of the girl.

[email protected] SG

they are quite a large percentage partially responsible for her death.

shinta SG

how are they responsible?

esp the policeman part..

it wasn clear if the police heard the driver.

but everyone jumped in n said the police is as fault.

MeOwSuSan SG

May be too young....

but first aid is very important !!!

all must try to learn the base, it help a lot,

my daugther also got leant ....

[email protected] SG

i didn't know that politics from the top down can be an excuse for personal apathy. Seriously everyone got a brain. dun want to use it then i also cannot say anything much. yea perhaps I WILL stay in UK. Unfortunately Singapore is where I am born, society gets more and more Fucked up u think I happy mah? Maybe u can say I care too much loh. Should I be more apathetic like everyone else in Sg? Perhaps. But maybe the real quitters are the apathetic people. They've quit caring.

MeOwSuSan SG

I agree ....

parent have a part to play too ...

look at a bigger picture !!!

browniebaobao SG

even if they couldn't hear him, they could have stopped the car and check out wat's wrong right?

u think ple disiao disiao like to horn at police car meh?

[email protected] SG

If the taxi driver hadn't rejected the woman, the girl might have gotten a higher chance of surviving

If the policemen had help the woman, the girl might have gotten a higher chance of surviving.

So how are they not indirectly partially responsible?

If u walk past someone drowning and u can throw them a life ring but choose not to do so, aren't u indirectly responsible for his.her death, regardless of what or why he/she was in the water?

shinta SG

if there are other cars on the road, the police might have assume that teh cabby was horning at other cars instead.

the writer wasn clear on this area.

browniebaobao SG

It's still a choice of whether u WANT or DON'T WANT to help.

even if u are not obliged to help, but if u want to help, who can stop u?

rainee SG

horn nia how the policeman wud know what's going on wor...so not fair to blame him also...unless the taxi driver horned a few times then he still sped away, then got something to hold him on to...

the first taxi driver shudnt have just say no and said he is heading off to another area, I mean a life is in danger, shudnt he just try his best to give his assistance?

And yea, best is to call ambulance, at least other vehicles on the road will give way...

Anyway, it has already happened, just take it as a lesson and stop pointing fingers...

browniebaobao SG

then can the writer pls come in and elaborate on the situation?

MeOwSuSan SG

best is to call ambulance agree !!! support it !!

shinta SG

that was a quote from the straits times

browniebaobao SG

ambulance also not reliable.

they took 45 mins to send my father to the nearest hospital, which could be done in less than 10 mins. wat the hell went wrong?

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