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"Long ago, [Jericho] road was known as the Bloody Pass. So it is possible that the priest and the Levite were afraid that if they stopped, they too would be beaten. Perhaps the robbers were still nearby. Or maybe the wounded man on the ground was a faker, who wished to draw passing travelers to his side for quick and easy seizure. I imagine that the first question the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But by the very nature of this concern, the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop, what will happen to him?’ The good Samaritan engaged in dangerous altruism."
Martin Luther King Jr., “On Being a Good Neighbor”

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