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Heroic Fan Memorialized In Game For Act of Bravery
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For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
And you want to talk about fallacy...
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
They make those assumption so automatic that they use them to construct an argument that the bike is not worth to die for.
Like it was said before, you do not know what will happen. You do not know who the thief is and what he is going to do, what will happen next. The thief could just as well be a junkie or some drunk who could as well harm way more people if he wasn't stopped by someone who got enough courage to act.
Again, he did not die for a bike but for not being careless.
(just making the point, I have no idea what has happened)
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1. The entire incident occured during daytime (before 4pm) inside the 160 hectare main campus of Guangdong University of Technology.
2. A number of students became aware of the theft and communicate through mobile social apps, giving location where they spotted the thief's movement through the campus. Witnesses later alleged that this is not the first time the thief has stole from the campus.
3. The deceased "hero" Wu was alerted by those messages and began to chase the thief on foot. He eventually met a fellow student, Xie who was riding a motorbike. Xie agreed to give chase together with Wu riding in the back.
4. During the collision on a campus lane, both the thief and Xie was only slighty injured but Wu was thrown off from the bike into a tree. He died from serious head and chest injuries in the hospital 3 hours later.
5. Some of his friends who were also involved in the chase said that they took matters in their own hands because the police failed to catch the thief even though their made a few prior reports. "We only mean to corner the thief, but he made a sudden turn..." he alleged.
5. Wu was described as a "good kid" with a "passionate heart", always willing to help others.
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As @SBFord said, it's not about the bike, it's about the principles!
Some other guy said that if someone is beaten and X comes and help the beated one, then that is an act of .. heroism , while chasing someone who just stolen a friend bike is not.
Let me ask you something, if you ignore chasing someone if he steals something from you, do you really can say , with a straight face , that you will do something if someone is beaten?! No! You will then say "not my problem!"
So yes! Any act of heroism is needed in today's world ! To to bad that the guy died! RIP!
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"a person who is not a police officer but who tries to catch and punish criminals"
...given that he's not a police officer and he tried to catch a criminal, I'd say he fits the definition.
Also, there are reasons why convenience stores and banks always tell their employees to just give the robbers what they want and call the cops, rather than try to stop them.
And in any and every news article I've ever seen where a vigilante (or "a compassionate human being" if you will) tried to stop a criminal and a police officer was reached for comment, they'd always ask people not to emulate that behavior and just call the cops, because it puts everyone at heightened risks.
Personally, I think it's wiser to take the words of the professionals on this one.