LME: Lazy Man Ethics
Customers ignore dead clerk
The following news story (I found via Drudge, see he’s not all bad) is one of the clearest examples of Tony Vahl and Damian Hospital’s term: LME.
GARY, Ind. (CBS) ― A 26-year-old convenience store clerk was shot and killed in broad daylight in Gary, Ind., and police say witnesses stood by and did nothing……When asked what he finds most disturbing about the surveillance footage, Titus said, “The fact that people went in and out of the store and didn’t call police. There is a man laying there. Nobody thinks to dial 911 or check to see if he’s OK or anything.”
One of the rules of LME is not to get involved with events that do not directly effect you (or so you think- Peter Parker let a thief run by him while ignoring a policeman’s call for help; the thief wound up killing his Uncle Ben).
The people here in this store wanted no part of being a witness or giving their names or dealing with anything that would have inconvenienced them.
Other rules of LME seen here:
1) Assuming. I’m sure someone assumed “somebody else” called 911.
2) Single track mind and selfishness: You go to the store to shop. You must get your item for yourself of for your family. Anything else- anything- can’t get in the way of that goal. I can imagine one of them going home and telling his wife, “Hey honey, some clerk got shot at the store.” And his wife replies, “Really? Well did you get my cigarettes?”
3) Racism. The late clerk’s name was Gurjeet Singh. ’nuff said.
It’s also like we’ve become desensitized to crime and death- unless it happens to someone we care about. I also think that people look down upon Indian or Arab clerks. I can’t imagine people just standing around or continuing to shop before the 1980’s. (If someone wants to search old newspapers online and lemme know, that would be cool and an enlightening experience.)
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Well you obviously know about 1964 Kitty Genovese (see Watchmen).
Actually in high school I learned that the MEDIA, Harlan Ellison, and a bunch of other people kinda exaggerated and dramatized that event to bring urban apathy and city crime to attention; no one saw the whole thing, and she didn't even scream.
From what I gather from my grandmother things started to go down the tubes with busing/forced integration in the early 1960's.
City life seems to bring out the worst in people when it comes to apathy and mistrust.
collapse of society.