shminux comments on Why Don't People Help Others More? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 16 August 2012 07:01:04PM *  3 points [-]

Call 911 (or local equivalent) and ask what to do?

Comment author: DaFranker 16 August 2012 07:20:56PM *  3 points [-]

Additionally: Prioritize minimizing risk to yourself (and anyone else once you learn of their presence, if any) while grabbing any minimal-risk opportunity to obtain more information on the situation (e.g. seeing the face or hearing the voice of the person who shot and the person who was shot, if any).

Comment author: Raemon 16 August 2012 07:41:08PM 0 points [-]

Sounds about right. In the process of writing what's sort of supposed to be a rationalist parable, but the takeaway lesson is sort of vague and I'm not sure what to encourage.

Comment author: Raemon 16 August 2012 07:40:12PM 0 points [-]

Meant to specify that you didn't have a phone, or that you are in a place without easy access to cops.