I'll now spin you a yarn, and I'd like your feedback.
Were my actions in this scenario polite or rude?
The year is 2011, and I'm on the bus in Hamilton. As mentioned, Hamilton is a Fat City. A woman runs, that is to say, attempts to run towards the bus. She eventually makes it aboard, through great struggle. I quickly become aware that there is but one empty seat, and that is to my left.
Knowing that this woman obviously has a hard time standing, I get up, thus giving her two seats to work with. However, in this process, I'm actively acknowledging that she is too fat to fit in a bus seat.
What should I have done?
This makes me question everything I know about morality and samaritanism.
ReplyDeletehahahahahahahahahaha omfg what a ethical dilemma!
ReplyDeleteYell "STOP THE BUS" and get off.
ReplyDeleteLet her make the call: if she goes for the seat (e.g. making her way towards it) so as to sit down, and it does indeed require two seats for her to sit, stand up.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, if she doesn't want to face the shame of taking the last seat and makes no move for it, remain seated.
Thus the conflict of shame/comfort is resolved by the one who both fall upon.
I would have continued to sit. And probably put my book bag, which I almost surely would have with me, in the empty seat. Then I would have looked in the opposite direction, as if I did not notice this she-whale standing there.
ReplyDeleteBig city folk are rude.
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