Am I wrong for not offering my seat to an old lady on the bus?

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Oromashu said:

Roma said:

Oromashu said:

Yes you do. You lose time, energy, and opportunity cost, for helping someone. There is always a consequence for everything you do. He made his desicion and there is nothing wrong about it.

Yeah tell that to the person that one day ignores you while you need help with something. He/she will tell you they will loose energy if they let you sit on their seat.

You might be healthy and don’t need help but one day you will and you will ask yourself why did I not help that poor lady that needed help carrying the bags a couple of meters to get too her house.

 

 

Not sure why that would matter. If I'm down on my luck and no one offered me a seat, they can use the same reason I stated, and it wouldn't change anything. The consequence for helping the lady has the same level of risk as the consequence for not helping her. He doesn't need to help her because there is nothing to be gained and the reverse is also true. So, in a sense, there is no right or wrong answer for what he did. He just chose to do what felt was best, considering the circumstances. There is no right or wrong for what he did. Which is why I said it.

Not true. This thread is the consequence of not helping the lady. Now it's entirely obvious to us as well as the OP that this thing happening (the remorse, questions and energy spent on thinking about it) had a MUCH larger chance of happening than whatever negative consequence you can think of if he would have given up the seat. And it's not society's fault or merrit. We are wired this way. We need love, we like kindness...

Well, most of us anyway..., not you.