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Are We Officially Inhuman? Let's Debate!

    • sneha.bhattacharjee@timesgroup.com
    • Publish Date: Feb 3 2017 1:27PM
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    • Updated Date: Feb 3 2017 6:20PM
Are We Officially Inhuman? Let's Debate!

A spurt of viral social media posts has laid bare a very pertinent fact in front of our eyes...

Trust us, we will not burden you with a heavy story like this on a weekend if it wasn't required. However, there are times when it becomes absolutely necessary to debate/discuss/introspect/question our sanity as humans. Read about these incidents that have kept our viral life busy and then join the discussion?

  • A college-going student died in Bengaluru on Thursday after he was hit by a bus. But it was not the bus that killed him. A crowd had gathered around the boy when he was mowed down by the bus. However, instead of helping him rush to the hospital, the crowd was busy filming him and clicking his pictures. By the time, he reached the hospital, he was dead. This is not the first incident wherein public apathy towards the victim cost him or her a life. 
  • In another incident, a man - rushing his pregnant wife to the hospital - in his car scarped an audi in Delhi-NCR region. As a result, the driver of the Audi — a lady herself — pulled the car keys and refused to give it to the man despite his repeated pleas. Forget that, she even refused when the police tried to intervene. After a mob cornered her, she threw away the keys. Mind you, she did not handover the keys.
  • Last week, an elderly woman and her differently-abled daughter bore the ire of an angry mob in a town in Bengal, who thought them to be child-lifters. This, despite the woman having spent more than six decades of her life in the city. What's worse, the mob was so angry at them that they stripped and molested the daughter in front of her mother. The woman tried to plead but her pleas fell on deaf ears. So, was it that the woman looked a foreigner more than an Indian that caused the mob fury? 
  • These are only a few incidents. There might be many more that go unreported. Now that social media has taken centrestage in everyone's life, such news aren't hidden anymore. Remember that medical college student from Tamil Nadu, who threw a puppy from the terrace? Or the infosys employee from Chennai, who was murdered in the wee hours on a railway platform, and bled to death as none of the people around offered to help? 

What is more important — to shoot a video or to save a life? What would you have done in such a situation? What is the reason behind us being so indifferent? Why is it that our first instict doesn't guide us to help someone in need?What stop us from helping someone who is on the verge of death? Why do we not ignore a small damage done to our things and see the real reason behind such an act? What do you think is the need of the hour? Share your thoughts in the comments section

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Emima Thangapandi PADUA HIGH SCHOOL-MANKHURD

I think our first instict doesn''t guide us to help someone in need because now a days when we share on social networks we get lots of likes and shares.We just think that someone else will go and help and we will just shoot it.When everybody thinks like that nobody helps the person in need.I think there should a law that we should not take videos when someone needs help.

T.Anudeep Chakravarthi Sree Narayana Vidya Bhavan

there should have a law we should not take video anyone needs help

Himanshi Dhawan Saffron Public School

If I would have been in such a situation, then I would have provided aid. But today this obvious fact that saving a life is more important than shooting a video is not obvious anymore. I feel that the people have become too selfish and inhuman. They strongly feel that they will waste their so-called precious time (which in true sense is wasted by them on phones, silly talks etc.) in helping others which they feel can be used in any other productive work.

Himanshi Dhawan Saffron Public School

How can we forget that the policy of mankind is to put the responsibility on others and escape. It is the habit of the Indian people to think that the impact they make on the problem is negligible.There lies the whole problem. Why do we always expect others to come up with an aid? Also the politics in social media has made the things worse. In order to get likes and comments, one stoops to the level of shooting someone''s video who has met with a bitter or inhuman experience?

Himanshi Dhawan Saffron Public School

The need of the hour is to do all that we can to wipe a tear to provide a cup of joy to plant a tree to resist the temptation of littering the roads to follow all the traffic rules etc. If all of us will take careful actions ensuring all''s welfare, then all the ills in the world will automatically disappear. We will have to be proactive in taking action. We have to stop being narcissistic.

Aadrit Banerjee Apeejay School Salt Lake

Quite shocked after reading these inhuman stories... how can the people show much of ignorance and be so unkind... this is not at all accepted... it shows how much illiterate we are actually....

Aadrit Banerjee Apeejay School Salt Lake

Quite shocked after reading these inhuman stories... how can the people show much of ignorance and be so unkind... this is not at all accepted... it shows how much illiterate we are actually....

Mayank Mittal Delhi Public School Jaipur

hiii nice story

C.Elakshme devi Amalorpavam Higher Secondary School - Puducherry

There must be a law for this story. I dont like inhuman stories.

Aditya Kumar Singh ASHOK MEMORIAL SCH SEC-35 FBD

I think our first move is to help someone in need not to share videos on social networking sites.

RIYA MITTAL Convent of Jesus and Mary

That''s the problem with India.There are many more stories like this which come in the newspaper. Mere photos and videos have become more important than someone''s life .People will realise their mistakes only when something like this happens to THEM.Today''s world has really become very selfish.

Annada Dash KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA -PANVEL

I think our first instict doesn''''t guide us to help someone in need because now a days when we share on social networks we get lots of likes and shares.

Hiya Kilam global indian internatonal school

In today''s world of professional cameras, social media and selfies, people use others as toys and love their own devices. We humans have forgotten to live in the real world, rather they live in the virtual world. These incidents show that people have stopped caring and being kind to other people. We always talk about bringing peace and sympathy to the world. But how is this possible if so many such incidents are happening across the globe? Humans really need some lessons.

Siddhi Gothivrekar S M SHETTY H SCH - POWAI

the need of the hour is to understand the humanity factor that we keep mentioning now and again but try to inculcate within ourselves . it is a true shame that we, being of the same breed dislike others so much that we don''t bother to help someone who is in danger . i feel the we have some duties which we should follow towards public welfare . i am in support of humanity and i strongly take a stand on this note of mine.

Navneet Kishan.S NAGARJUNA VIDYANIKETAN

It is most important to save a person than to shoot a video or a photo, if I was in such a situation I would call an ambulance for treatement.The reason behind people being so inhuman is because of the likes and comments they get on social networking sites.People must have faith in humanity, not be selfish and help people than to shoot a photo or a video to upload in these social networking sites depicting their pain for silly comments or likes.

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