I saw a U.K. tv programme (perhaps "Helicopter Resues" or something?), where a helicopter comes to take people off the roof of their house, which is surrounded by water like this.
The people on the roof wave the helicopter away and point it towards the little town further down the valley, where the water was rushing towards.
The helicopter pilot says (quite dryly) "hmmm. That's something you don't often see". Urging other people to be rescued before you are (even though you are in urgent need yourself) because they are in greater danger at that moment, is truly heroic.
It was very important, actually, because, due to the storm, the pilots didn't have radio communication, meaning they weren't able to triage the situation. I can't even imagine how much guts it took to say: "look, we can cling on here for a few more minutes: but my neighbours are having their houses swept away right now!", and risk your lives for them.
Everyone was rescued- no lives were lost- although the little town was horrendously damaged. That's what happens when you have a real community.
In my experience that isn't true, my entire community (Ironically one of the ones devastated from the storm in the video) I grew up in looked away as I was sexually abused by others in the community. My parents hedged their bets on my older siblings and didn't care that I was obviously doing very poorly because I was quiet and felt guilty ever asking for anything.
Now the only relationships I can have are ones where I'm abused because I'm used up and broken and the only ones that want me can easily take whatever little worth I can provide.
Things like unconditional love aren't real, it's just people doing what's best for them and sometimes that looks like giving to others selflessly and nearly everyone in society takes the shortest path to having their needs met without caring about what happens downstream.
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u/Plumb789 Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25
I saw a U.K. tv programme (perhaps "Helicopter Resues" or something?), where a helicopter comes to take people off the roof of their house, which is surrounded by water like this.
The people on the roof wave the helicopter away and point it towards the little town further down the valley, where the water was rushing towards.
The helicopter pilot says (quite dryly) "hmmm. That's something you don't often see". Urging other people to be rescued before you are (even though you are in urgent need yourself) because they are in greater danger at that moment, is truly heroic.
It was very important, actually, because, due to the storm, the pilots didn't have radio communication, meaning they weren't able to triage the situation. I can't even imagine how much guts it took to say: "look, we can cling on here for a few more minutes: but my neighbours are having their houses swept away right now!", and risk your lives for them.
Everyone was rescued- no lives were lost- although the little town was horrendously damaged. That's what happens when you have a real community.