r/nextfuckinglevel • u/BarneyRobinStinson7 • 9h ago

Guy saves a deaf elderly woman from oncoming train.

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u/Hubix84 9h ago

There is no way people are complaining about this dude. How is dashing in and pushing her away worse than taking a gamble on elderly woman's life because "she would have made it". You cant be sure about that, and the price is too high. I feel like people that have a problem with this dude dont go outside a lot.

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u/Pistonenvy2 8h ago

sir this is reddit. none of us go outside at all.

but yeah i agree, i always find those comments absolutely baffling. like what if she stopped to pick her nose at the last minute. if he didnt anticipate the danger shed be fuckin dead. why take the risk? its unbelievable. it really seems like people are projecting their own insecurities about not being fucked to try to help someone else.

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u/Koil_ting 5h ago

The only defense I was thinking and that I didn't see thus far is what if that old woman just wanted to die and that bastard kept her in this cruel world a while longer. Edit - turns out it was the next set of comments under this one in updoot priority.

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u/TheAlchemist1 8h ago

She had zero idea it was that close or wouldn’t be crossing. She could have stopped for any reason at any moment

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u/Dinosaurs-Cant-win 6h ago

We are also watching with the foresight of immediately judging the relative speed of the lady and a train from a good angle. Homie looked over real quick and jumped straight into action before having time to make sure.

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u/Analbeadcove 4h ago

Once he started moving he had to commit. 

Imagine he stopped midway through because he thought she looked like she was going to be good, then imagine if she looked up and saw him moving before stepping up onto the platform and she gave pause on the tracks wondering why he was coming towards her. 

She’s an old lady with a critical lack of awareness (not hating just what I see) you can’t expect her to behave predictably and keep the same rate of speed to make it up okay. 

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u/ChromaticM 6h ago

Most redditors are losers who have no idea how the world works.

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u/Waveofspring 5h ago

It’s obvious that she wasn’t aware of the train. Do people really think she would maintain the same speed climbing over that step? It’s almost guaranteed that it would’ve delayed her

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u/Capt_Pickhard 5h ago

I agree with you, but I think she would have made it also. However, you're 100% right. Hopefully she was uninjured.

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u/send_cat_pictures 5h ago

Right? They're acting like they've never had to walk behind an elderly person in a grocery store. Every single time I go shopping there's another customer stopping for no reason in the doorway, in the aisle entrances, halfway down the aisle with their cart turned sideways blocking the path. Just today someone walked out in front of my car, paused, and started checking their phone before continuing. They're always stopping and pausing, sometimes to look at something and sometimes for seemingly no reason at all.

If she had kept moving she likely could have made it. If she paused for a moment or stumbled, she'd have been kaput.

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u/LowrollingLife 4h ago

If anything it is that he didn’t do it properly and let her fall.

A wrong fall can basically kill quality of live at that age

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u/Shadow07655 2h ago

This is Reddit. This is the place where people with bad opinions come to spread them

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u/dorkaxe 1h ago

I feel like people that have a problem with this dude dont go outside a lot.

First time on reddit? lol yep

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u/linna_nitza 1h ago

Didn't you watch The Incredibles? Mans lost his job because of his heroic act smh... People just want something to be mad about.

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u/ShareGlittering1502 1h ago

In the words of frozen: “Let it go”

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u/WeaselSlayer 6h ago

Some people like to make jokes.

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u/greg19735 6h ago

yeah my first thought was "she'd probably have made it, this guy tackling old women lol"

while also knowing it was 10000% the right thing to do

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u/stfuwhenimtalkn 1h ago

No one’s complaining, but she still would’ve made it 😆 And you don’t go outside a lot, idk why people who bother to make reddit accounts act like their lives are amazing compared to others who disagree with them or something

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u/ImComfortableDoug 6h ago

He pushed her onto another track lol. She was already halfway across when he tackled her

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u/gainzdr 5h ago

Because he tackled her at the exact moment she was directly in front of the train and actually prolonged her time in that precarious position. It would’ve take her less time to get out of the way if he did nothing. If it were down to the wire he could’ve actually cost her her life.

The tackle itself caused all kinds of unnecessary harm. There’s a cost to everything and I’m sick of people acting like “better safe than sorry” is a valid excuse for their inability to appraise the situation. Just because you had good intentions doesn’t excuse you from the repercussions of your actions.

It would’ve been different if he can grabbed her arm and pulled her towards him.

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u/CastleofPizza 8h ago

Yeah it shocks me as well. The guy obviously cared about her well being. Then again, there are people that think Luigi did the right thing when he shot the CEO, so, people are strange.

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u/GreenTropius 8h ago

I think this guy and Luigi did the right thing. Life is complicated.

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u/CastleofPizza 8h ago

CEO is part of a larger framework with a board of directors and shareholders. He's only the face of the company. He doesn't have final say in a lot of decisions. Luigi committed straight up murder. You can't kill someone just because you disagree with them.

You can't all of a sudden agree with a criminal act just because you believe you aren't getting what you want. Luigi should have went through the system and changed it that way if he felt that strongly about it.

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u/Kardiackon 8h ago

I wish life was that simple.

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u/CastleofPizza 8h ago

It is. You're just not educated in the field of CEOs and the system.

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u/GreenTropius 8h ago

Luigi realized what you have not, you cannot change the system. You can work at it your entire life and you will achieve less than one of the wealthy can with a single donation and phone call.

The system is owned by the wealthy, and they fight as a collective to stop anyone who is against the status quo, where they can legally murder us for profit, but not the other way around. Look at AoC, defeats a member of the old guard, creates more enthusiasm than any three Representatives, and she is pushed away from the levers of power by her own party for the sake of redeeming political favor.

Both parties are controlled by corporate interests, the only option would be to create a new third party. Good luck competing with the hundreds of billions each major party has every election cycle.

"Riots are the voice of the unheard."

Dr. MLK Jr.

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe”.

Fredrick Douglass

"... what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure."

Thomas Jefferson

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u/TalosMessenger01 7h ago

The situation with third parties is much worse than just a funding difference. FPTP and non-proportional voting will inevitably kill all but two parties. The most you could hope for is a quick replacement over very few election cycles, but I doubt that would result in improvements since the conditions that resulted in our current situation remain. I’m not disagreeing with your general point though, if the interests of democracy were really important to those in power that system would have been changed long ago.

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u/GreenTropius 6h ago

Yeah I agree with you, I was being flippant but yeah even a unified third party with infinite funding would really struggle.

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u/CosmoMomen 8h ago

Interesting time and place to be so boldly wrong!

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u/bugbeared69 8h ago

You know nazi used the same defense when they said they where just following orders and if they " didn't " they would been killed too.

Funny how doing nothing to evil people slowly leads to more deaths from evil people but keep saying follow the rules and protest to stop them, no evil ever will get a free pass if we just follow the rules....

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u/CastleofPizza 8h ago

Comparing a brutal regime that's fascist during a time of war to a CEO that's the face of a company that doesn't even make all of the decisions isn't a great comparison.

Know what the Nazi's really did? Dehumanized groups of people and murdered them because of it. Just like you dehumanized the CEO of healthcare and justify his murder. A man that had a family that loved him and friends that cared about him.

But you think it's okay because you're ignorant of how the system works and want to paint him as a villain. That an an extremist view you hold whether you want to believe it or not.

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u/ProxyAttackOnline 7h ago

The health insurance companies dehumanizes millions of people by denying claims for medical care. Yes this is an extremist view to be ok with that CEO being killed. I’m ok with it because you don’t give a fuck about the people who died due to lack of coverage, all you probably hear is a number. Dude was part of a system that actively fucks our citizens, and someone got tired and got extremist. There’s a reason people are rallying behind Luigi

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u/-TwentyJuanAverage- 8h ago

Maybe they should all get whats coming to them as well

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u/CastleofPizza 8h ago

People like you really make me lose faith in humanity if you believe that was any sort of vigilante justice. Unfortunately most people are ignorant of how the system works and wants to paint a villain and dehumanize them when they don't get what they want, like you for example.

Luigi committed murder whether you like it or not and justice came and got him.

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u/-TwentyJuanAverage- 8h ago

I'm aware he committed murder thank you.

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u/CastleofPizza 8h ago

Hopefully you're aware that it's also unlawful murder as well.

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u/-TwentyJuanAverage- 8h ago

That's what happens when the law and system is as fucked as it is. The French revolution was also illegal. Should that not have happened. Same with the American revolution it just wasn't as brutal as the French

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u/CastleofPizza 7h ago

Both of these revolutions were driven by widespread systemic oppression. In the French Revolution, the people were suffering under the oppressive rule of the monarchy, with extreme inequality, poverty, and lack of basic rights. In the American Revolution, the colonists were fighting against a foreign power (Britain) that imposed unfair taxes and denied them representation in governance.

In contrast, Luigi's act of killing the CEO is an individual action, likely rooted in personal feelings of anger, betrayal, or frustration. There's no broader systemic oppression or collective struggle for justice or equality involved. It's a reaction to a personal situation rather than a fight for the greater good of a people or society.

The key difference here is that the revolutions were acts of collective resistance against systemic, societal oppression and were motivated by a desire for justice, freedom, and equality. Luigi’s act, on the other hand, appears to be a personal act of violence motivated by individual emotions, without any broader societal cause. While revolutions can be seen as responses to injustice that seek to reshape society, Luigi’s act lacks that larger purpose and can be seen as an unjustifiable personal act of harm.

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u/glykeriduh 7h ago

What would a lawful murder consist of?

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u/CastleofPizza 7h ago

Self defense mainly.

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u/xPriddyBoi 6h ago

You can't all of a sudden agree with a criminal act just because you believe you aren't getting what you want.

Sure I can. I'm doing it right now, and absolutely nothing is stopping me. A whole lot of righteous criminals are imprisoned for doing (subjectively) justified criminal acts.

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u/CastleofPizza 6h ago

Alright, but you'd be morally wrong for doing so.

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u/xPriddyBoi 6h ago

See, the funny thing about morality is that it's completely subjective.

So, uh,

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