r/BeAmazed • u/Sirsilentbob423 • Feb 04 '25

Miscellaneous / Others Derrick Byrd, 20, sustained second- and third-degree burns on his face, arms, and back after rushing back into a burning home to save his 8-year-old niece.

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More info: https://people.com/human-interest/uncle-saves-niece-running-into-burning-house-severe-burns-no-regrets/

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u/Geodiocracy Feb 04 '25

And that's how you know your society is going to hell. If you're not willing to try and save someone else's kid, even at the possible cost of your own life. Then no one is going to help your kid if it's life is in critical danger. Obviously there is a ton of nuance, but the gist of it is damning.

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u/DyeSkiving Feb 04 '25

I've had to snatch a kid out of the road before. It wasn't my kid. I don't even like kids. But "save the kid" is so hardwired into our instincts that you don't even think about it, you just do it. What those cops did was literally inhuman.

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u/Choice_Blackberry406 Feb 05 '25

I think that's more of a reflection on cops than society as a whole. The cops forcibly held down parents who were willing to go in unarmed and unshielded.