Erm...What You Get Is What You Deserve?

[bermuddy]

"what goes around comes around" goes into full effect here, but you need to realize that the same goes for people for said she deserved it. When someone is sick and you purposefully choose not to care or mock someone about its going to come right back and get you.

[jeccaneko]

I dunno. My stepdad has epilepsy and from time to time he has seizures. I wouldn't want to wish seizures on anybody. I've never had any myself, but they look terrifying to someone witnessing them and even my stepdad said they can be pretty scary sometimes (though he usually found them irritating more than scary).

[Wolfbeckett]

It's known as you respect people.

Despite disliking someone, it's only polite to show at least a slight shred of respect for them especially when they fall ill or get hurt

Maybe it is just your choice of wording but I half agree and half disagree. When someone gets hurt or ill you do what you can to help because it is the right thing to do, but if someone has proven themselves unworthy of respect I for one do not give that. I do not think helping someone who is currently having a seizure is a mark of respect, it is just doing the right thing.

[FloodOne]

ahhh... I really don't care about other people's hardships... I don't wish ill on anyone, but it doesn't really faze me when it happens either. You can call me heartless, or half a person, but it doesn't change the facts that thousands of people have terrible things happen to them every day.

In high school, a classmate died in a car accident, but it didn't bother me. I didn't know him well at all, plus he was kind of a dick. It's not like I celebrated his death, but I didn't mourn it either.

Empathy and sympathy for the masses are overrated

[kiggidykev]

Empathy and sympathy for the masses are overrated

Ironically, saying that things are overrated is in itself overrated.

With your bleak outlook on life, you'd best hope you don't find yourself in a situation where you need the help of strangers.

[BuRn7 CaK3]

A girl in my school, one that's kinda my friend and has told me that she used to like me, had a seizure at school today. Ambulance came, second ambulance that's been to the school in a month (the first being the guy that got a pencil stabbed into a buttcheek). Apparently this is the third seizure she's had, and she's seventeen

I hope she's okay, I haven't been able to talk to her yet

But anyway, apparently she is horrible to most everybody she has met. She talks crap and spreads rumors about a lot of people, she's obnoxious, and she is large, so everybody really dislikes her - some people even hate her. So, when she had her seizure, people just passed on without thinking, some people openly said that they didn't care it was her, and some people were even giggling about it, as if they enjoyed her suffering

Is this really a correct way to act in a society? What goes around comes around? Shouldn't we at least show some remorse for those who have been mean to us previously? Maybe they will return kindness if you show it first, especially when they are in a life-threatening predicament.

Those are just my thoughts, anyway. It really just makes me sad that everyone saw this life-threatening episode indifferently instead of feeling concern. I don't know.

Generally speaking, people are stupid. They really don't care what happens to people. Is that the correct way to act even to someone you don't like? Hell no!
If someone gets hurt like that, make sure they're ok. Seizures are scary things, i know my friend recently had one for the first time and he's about to be 21 next month.

Last year, kids made these things called "hornets" which were really oddly folded pieces of paper in a V shape and shot them out of rubber bands. One kid got mobbed: Shot in the nuts, both eyes, and neck. All 3 kids who shot him were suspended a semester. Poor kid, those things hurt on the arm.

Those things are so stupid. When i was at school, there would be a bunch of people who would do it. I've gotten hit once by them and i will admit, they hurt like a S.O.B!

[Zeleii]

Maybe it is just your choice of wording but I half agree and half disagree. When someone gets hurt or ill you do what you can to help because it is the right thing to do, but if someone has proven themselves unworthy of respect I for one do not give that. I do not think helping someone who is currently having a seizure is a mark of respect, it is just doing the right thing.

Well, personally I believe that even though you may hate someone. It's still respectful to keep it at a tolerable level to the rest of society. It's perfectly fine to have someone show they don't deserve respect, but it's always courteous to show respect by not escalating things to a near intolerable level.


That my friends is what I've learned from these forums.

[Wolfbeckett]

Well, personally I believe that even though you may hate someone. It's still respectful to keep it at a tolerable level to the rest of society. It's perfectly fine to have someone show they don't deserve respect, but it's always courteous to show respect by not escalating things to a near intolerable level.


That my friends is what I've learned from these forums.

Well I personally feel that respect has to be earned to be kept. I respect everyone that I meet right off the bat but if they do stuff to show they are undeserving of respect, they have to win it back before I will give them the time of day. Life is too short to spend it trying to be nice to asshats.

That said, if somebody is on the ground having a seizure, you call the ambulance, not to show respect, but because it is the only action a decent human being would contemplate in that situation.

[Zeleii]

Well I personally feel that respect has to be earned to be kept. I respect everyone that I meet right off the bat but if they do stuff to show they are undeserving of respect, they have to win it back before I will give them the time of day. Life is too short to spend it trying to be nice to asshats.

That said, if somebody is on the ground having a seizure, you call the ambulance, not to show respect, but because it is the only action a decent human being would contemplate in that situation.

And TBH I've found life is too short to rude to morons as well. Best if you just show a little respect and pay them no attention.

Contrary to popular belief ignoring someone disruptive is a form of respecting people one way or another

[davidstead]

Some agree saying people deserve what they get but what about the girl in my class that developed TB? Everyone likes her and she is like a top grade student. She doesnt deserve what she got and has everyones support.