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a bank robbery on the street in the daytime

It is a news from China. A woman was stabbed by a man with a knife in a bank. It was morning and there were many people around her. But no one helped her. The woman died and the bad person sneaked out. From the video you can see how cold people around her were, including the people in the bank, the vendors on the street just outside the bank , a woman who took her basket from the robbed woman's back and the bank cleark hiding inside the office.

I felt so bad and suprised when I saw the video. A chinese saying goes that one should only clean the snow in his own backyard and do not need to help your neibourhood, which is really ugly. I hope I will never see such tragedy any longer.

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Fredrick Katenjammer:

Very horrific. And to imagine it happens daily in all countries all over the world. I know this isn't a religious discussion, but it reminded me of a story in the Christian Bible:

Luke 10:30-37
Jesus answered, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.  In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion, came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’ Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?" He said, "He who showed mercy on him." Then Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."

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Lou Yi

Lou Yi, a writer for Caijing magazine in Beijing, is working at the Philadelphia Inquirer under the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships program.

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