From Kyle Payne’s “Disclaimer” page:

Recognizing my limitations, of which the above paragraph is a brief and partial summary, I take seriously the need for me to think critically, engage in self-scrutiny, and to listen more than I talk.

Yeah that exact kind of boilerplate about “listening and learning” annoys me so much…now I don’t feel so guilty being annoyed by it.

Recognizing my limitations, of which the above paragraph is a brief and partial summary, I take seriously the need for me to think critically, engage in self-scrutiny, and to listen more than I talk.

Is it hard being that oblivious all the time? Or does he just revel in self-referential irony to an impossible degree?

(The link doesn’t work for me, but I found a NY Daily News article for it.)

Though it comes as a surprise to a lot of people, there’s no general legal requirement for people to help other people, even if there’s no danger to themselves. (There are specific situations where people in certain specific professions have a duty to help.) Unless you are in one of a very small list of professions, you have no duty under the law to lift so much as a finger to help someone in danger.

Of course, that doesn’t mean there isn’t a moral obligation to do something, and that the TA workers couldn’t have done more to help the woman. But a fear that doing anything to draw a violent criminal’s attention to oneself is dangerous is pretty widespread in NYC. This “culture of being intimidated,” as I call it, is one of the things I really don’t like about The City.

This has come up before with the NYC Transit Authority and caused a good deal of outrage. I thought that the rules had been changed so that they were required by work rules to at least call for help if they could do so without endangering themselves. According to the newspaper article, they contacted the NYCTA command center; I don’t know whether calling 911 — if that were even possible — would have gotten a faster response.

He’ll delete it. Trust me. The only reason worth commenting is to get one of your own links removed from his blog.

It’s just my personal recommendation, so take it or leave it, but I do in fact suggest that everyone stay far, far away from him. Seriously, just my extremely limited contact with him has convinced me that he is extraordinarily bad news. And by “extraordinarily bad news” I mean “thrives on the potential of triggering/hurting other people.”

Bah. Just commented on Kyle Payne’s blog. I’m interested to see how he reacts.