Agree with chuckster007, staggeringly sad that nobody went for the dry chemical fire extinguishers at hand to put the fires out and just stood around watching them burn.
Weird to me how people reacted...
Agree with chuckster007, staggeringly sad that nobody went for the dry chemical fire extinguishers at hand to put the fires out and just stood around watching them burn.
Weird to me how people reacted...
Last edited by Skyhook; 10-02-2017 at 11:37 PM.
A thread about a potentially mentally disturbed individual who may have tried to burn people to death on the train segues into a discussion on race and racial slurs. Also the "HK is shit" sentiment.
Welcome to GeoExpat. We just need the guy to be a mainlander then we'll hit a trifecta.
Horrible thing to happen, not sure when the fire was started but imagine if the train stopped while it was in the tunnel? Could have been much worse.
Any thoughts on what the repercussions might be? I mean, a kid brought in a metal balloon that caused a stoppage like 20 years ago, now they're banned.
Seems the fire was intentionally set, I hope they don't go full-TSA and make people chuck liquids before entering the paid area... Or maybe igniters like lighters/matches would be taken away instead?
And if he was found to be mentally disturbed, then maybe people will focus on the root of the problem and have better help for the mentally ill in the city? (hahahahah, yeah right)
As for the bystander effect... the behaviour has existed, and the term coined, long before this incident and long before mobile phones, is all I have to say about that.
More than one non-HK person was on the the scene and they were acting the same. Can you name a country where people would have reacted better?
The truly messed up people are those that use incidents like this to ride around on a moral high horse thinking they're better than HKers.
Nothing to do with being better than HKers, this sort of moral-high ground behaviour happens everywhere online. The problem is putting people into little identity boxes so we can think we are better than them, we are all just people. Reminds me of this ad:
https://youtu.be/jD8tjhVO1Tc
No training to Mtr staff on putting out fires or caring for the injured. They do train them on how to exceed capacity limits thus hindering safety.
To answer your question, there are a few countries where people would be required (by law) to react better (if they would is a totally different question) and might end up in court if they do nothing or film instead of grabbing a fire extinguisher that is just metes away or attend to an insured person. I guess it depends on the individual situation though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue
Last edited by 100LL; 11-02-2017 at 09:17 AM.
@100LL - I guess that is something derived from a categorical imperative?