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Originally Posted by alferret
@ Osem
They may well have been innocent but the catalyst was being accused of being a paedophile and the ingrates not discerning between peadiatrition and peadophile, not by getting out of a car trying to help someone and being killed for the privilege.
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I don't excuse at all what happened to the passenger of the car or the mob involved. As yet we don't have the full story as to what he may have said or done and of course a little girl was actually hurt during the incident in which the passenger was involved - albeit by accident and not, it seems, seriously.
All I would add though is that in the case I cite, there
wasn't an incident warranting ANY form of public concern or response in the first place and, of course, the paediatrician gets in/out of his/her car
every day to help children.
It's the supreme irony - a person who devotes their life to saving children is confused with one who devotes their life to abusing children for no other reason than terminology and ignorance. Being attacked can all too easily lead to death, even unintentionally, and I consider both incidents to be an example of the very worst of human behaviour. That is my point in response to your initial claim that stuff like this only happens in the US.