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« It's true | Main | I Love Steven Hill » Depraved Indifference?You know how sometimes you see someone trip and fall and there's that split second where you think "should I help or should I pretend I didn't see anything"? That moment when your usual instinct of ignoring strangers wars with the part of you that knows you really ought to do something. Well, increase that by a factor of 10 and remove that pesky conscience, and you've got today's society. Last night in front of an audience of hundreds at a presentation at the University of Southern California, TV personality Bill Nye -- popularly known as the "Science Guy" -- collapsed midsentence as he walked toward a podium. Early indications are that Nye is OK, but what's odd about the incident isn't so much Nye's slight health setback as the crowd's reaction. Or, more precisely, its nonreaction, according to several accounts. I hope i remember this feeling of disgust and shame next time someone needs help. I'm afraid that it's more likely that Mr. Bennett was right and that "it will pass away soon enough". By min | November 18, 2010, 8:31 AM | Ummm... Other? |