So who has stopped for a.....

Okabe

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person out of gas walking down the road.

I actually stopped the other day for a guy. The funny thing was that we actually had some of the same friends. I live in a small town called Sequim on the Olympic Peninsula.

I stopped because of what John had written. Time traveler or not his message was spot on and one I took to heart~



I did have a lil side question too. I swear i read something somewhere about a Battel Titor or someone named something very similar passing away. In Steins Gate John Titor's (who is a girl) dad is name Barrel Titor. Coincidence? The manga was also written in 2009 but if the manga came before the death then thats a lil weird.

What was the name? was it possibly barrel? and if so was the death actually in 2009?
 

PaulaJedi

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person out of gas walking down the road.

There ya go. Another Titor reference. *scratches head*

I stopped because of what John had written. Time traveler or not his message was spot on and one I took to heart~

Ah, I was correct.

I did have a lil side question too. I swear i read something somewhere about a Battel Titor or someone named something very similar passing away. In Steins Gate John Titor's (who is a girl) dad is name Barrel Titor. Coincidence? The manga was also written in 2009 but if the manga came before the death then thats a lil weird.

Yeah, Titor came before Stein's Gate. Battel Titor??

And someone stopped and helped me with gas once. It was a uniformed soldier in Georgia. :) He filled my tires with air, too.
 

Okabe

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I help people because it's the neighborly thing to do, not because John Titor was on the internet in 2000.

I have/had definitely fallen into the mindset of of "I'm not stopping. too many crazy and dangerous people out there". Reading Titor's post certainly made me reevaluate that way of thinking. I am certainly neighborly and help people out that I know and I volunteer at community events and the like but that shit is different than just stopping for a total stranger on the side of the road.

Obviously a little common sense has to be thrown in there as well. I am not going to stop if I have my kids with me for safety's sake and some people you can tell are not mentally stable by any means and it most likely isn't a good idea to let them in your car.

Paula you had someone stop for you. Would you stop for someone assuming they didn't look like a crazy murderer?

Cosmo. Do you only help just to be neighborly or is it also cause the person you are helping may be a precious resource for our society?
 

TimeWizardCosmo

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I help because it's the right thing to do.

soo...

does valuing everyone because they may be a precious commodity/resource for our society or community = The right thing to do ????

Seems like you're trying to find a way to interpret my answer to fit your original statement.

Whether or not someone is of value in a resource/commodity capacity plays no part in my daily life. I didn't help some random old lady at the supermarket load a bag of dog food into her car because I thought she might be a good source of ammo, and I didn't let the dude with 3 kids crawling all over him (who clearly needed to get in and out to save his sanity) cut in front of me at Chick-Fil-A because he might be good for a few MRE's after the bomb drops. I don't live that way.

If it's possible to help someone or do something nice and it's not going to negatively impact something or someone I already have an obligation to (like getting to work or being on time for an appointment), then yes, I help them. It's in my nature and I enjoy doing it.
 

TimeNot_0

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Ah, have to disagree somewhat. We work on having an economy, and this helping of people when there are other avenues available don't make me believe in Good Samaritans with a lot of that. And everyone can not be on welfare just because of political parties that probably should have been replaced a long time ago. There are limits to anything and everything in the reality of this Universe.
 

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