The freezing homeless child.....(social experiment)...

[one_voice]

The homeless child was freezing to death while no one approached him. I never thought this guy would be the only one!

In the world today, the number of homeless people grow by the minute. While parents lose their jobs, more and more children are abandoned and left on the streets to beg money for food. As life gets harder, they lose friends on the way until they are left alone to support themselves with nothing.

Well-to-do people tend to ignore homeless people regardless of how pitiful they look. These people do not know how it feels to be dirt poor when homeless people hot rock bottom. Who else to comfort and help homeless people than the same people who are in the same situation?

In this social experiment, a child is left outside in freezing temperatures. He only had a shirt on his back, and a garbage bag to keep him warm from the deadly breeze. While people merely passed by without even giving him a second look for 2 hours, a man approached the child. Though he was homeless himself, he gave his jacket to the boy and comforted him with words the child will never forget in his life.

http://viral4real.com/2015/02/24/the-homeless-child-was-freezing-to-death-while-no-one-approached-him-i-never-thought-this-guy-would-be-the-only-one/

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[Tsiyu]

1. If that doesn't make you cry, you have no soul

THIS is why I prefer to live in a poorer area, and always will.

While the middle class walks past the suffering with complete inhumanity and apathy, on their way to "important shopping," and the affluent rip each other apart to see who can hoard the most paper wealth, the poor look after each other.

A homeless man gives a poor child his coat and money. He's the only one in 2 hours to help. What a lovely nation we live in....

FUCK all of the cold, heartless people in this world. You've got no more ethics or social awareness than Ebola.

Everyone who walked past that child makes America SUCK.

WAKE UP AND START LOOKING AFTER THE LEAST OF THESE: Someday, you may become one of them yourself.

[Arugula Latte]

2. Meanwhile, in Scandinavia ...

[joshcryer]

9. I love that.

[Xithras]

3. It was a poorly executed social experiment.

Clean cut and washed kid wearing clean clothing with some obviously fake (and nonsensical) clean scissor cuts in it. I've been helping the homeless my entire life, including homeless teens, and I've never come across one that looks like that. It LOOKS like a 3 minute Halloween homeless person spoof costume that someone in suburbia would whip up.

A few feet away a couple of teenagers are standing around with a poorly hidden video camera (if you look, you'll see that several of the passersby looked straight into the camera...it clearly wasn't very "hidden&quot . If I'd been walking down the street and stumbled across this scenario, it would have been immediately obvious that this was either a prank or someones YouTube project.

I'd have walked right on by too.

[nruthie]

4. Very disturbing.

So much for all that compassionate good Samaritan crap I learned about back in the old Sunday School days. Apparently empathy is hard to come by unless you've experienced hardships personally and can relate. Pretty sad.

[uppityperson]

5. It can take 1 person to break the "ignore them" issue, let's be that one.

Aside from quibbling with the authenticity of the event and participants (for instance the man watches the boy for the first 4 min of the video, who knows how long if the kid was really there for hours), it points out a good point.

It can take one person to start the process, let's be that person.

[one_voice]

6. I have a friend...

not so much a friend but someone I know that always says 'you know half those people' (those people ) are scam artists. My response is I'd rather give a little something to a few scam artists than miss that one person that really needs it.

It's a no brainer for me. If I don't have cash-maybe money is tight--I've gone home and heated up food and taken it to someone I've seen or blankets. After Thanksgiving my daughter and I made plates and went to where we knew people normally were and gave out plates.

But really even doing that it's just a small band aid on a gushing wound.

[uppityperson]

7. You can't help everyone and who knows what all was happening in this vid, but you do what you can

when you can where you can. And indeed, it is only a bandaid on a gushing wound.

This vid brings home, to me, the standoffishness that many have, especially in large cities. Don't get involved until someone else does.

[The2ndWheel]

8. It's not difficult to get why people didn't do anything

Nobody knows if it's real or just some kid doing something stupid. The kid could easily have a weapon or something. Certainly men, in general, don't want to get involved with random children on the street. People always say we're supposed to have some kind of officially sanctioned and regulated government programs that deal with that sort of things, not just charity. Correctly or incorrectly, people probably figure someone else is doing something in some way about it.