Herb Cowan, large vegetable farmer (and, apparently reincarnated) said:
"Even when I lived in a piss-poor village in 17 A.D., and even though it may have been called a ‘charitable’ act, we villagers were still expected (not if we felt a hankering to do it, but expected) to help fellow villagers if any of their large arteries or veins were spirting blood and they needed medical assistance.
Even then, it was highly frowned upon (and frankly, not tolerated) to walk away from some poor sucker bleeding to death, even if he or she was the town's least-productive denizen. And, we never felt like our pockets were being picked for lending a firm hand over the wound because, if some Roman soldier accidently gouged out one of our eyes, or some wild beast severed a limb, we expected the same from our fellow villagers. In fact, one villager once got banished for failing to come to the aid of another when a wild animal had ripped open his gut.
As a civil and decent society, some things are just worth pulling together on."
Loren M. Lambert © April 27, 2012
"Even when I lived in a piss-poor village in 17 A.D., and even though it may have been called a ‘charitable’ act, we villagers were still expected (not if we felt a hankering to do it, but expected) to help fellow villagers if any of their large arteries or veins were spirting blood and they needed medical assistance.
Even then, it was highly frowned upon (and frankly, not tolerated) to walk away from some poor sucker bleeding to death, even if he or she was the town's least-productive denizen. And, we never felt like our pockets were being picked for lending a firm hand over the wound because, if some Roman soldier accidently gouged out one of our eyes, or some wild beast severed a limb, we expected the same from our fellow villagers. In fact, one villager once got banished for failing to come to the aid of another when a wild animal had ripped open his gut.
As a civil and decent society, some things are just worth pulling together on."
Loren M. Lambert © April 27, 2012
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