On the way back from Jog tour we saw a buffalo which had met with an accident and a few people gathered around it. It probably was dead, it wasn’t moving, its head was at an odd angle and eyes open, this was in the rural part of Karnataka.
Contrast, we took the ring road from Tumkur road, soon we saw another accident, a truck had run over a bike, the bike was under the front wheel of the truck and a person was lying on the road almost at the center. Hundreds of vehicles were passing by. Not a single vehicle stopped by INCLUDING us. After we passed we were discussing whether we should have stopped. We thought after all he was dead and there was no point in stopping. We came up with reasons why we shouldn’t. Response of police, we may have to spend time running around.
Well I realized we were justifying ourselves with lame reasons for not stopping.
I could not answer 2 questions to myself.
1. How did I know he was dead? If he was not, am I not guilty of letting a person die?
2. Assuming he was dead, what if he were a known person?
Time to change and quickly.
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