ANSWERS: 81
  • Even though i hate and Despise the person i would help but that does Not mean we will be friends again
  • I still help. I may hate the person, but I'm not heartless.
  • I would have to help. Regardless of my personal feelings, it is a human being that needs help. If I didn't help, and the person ended up dying, I don't think I could forgive myself. Not to mention, I can't think of anyone with whom I regard with that much animosity.
  • I would definitely help. Even if I hate and despise this individual, my helping them would go to show that I'm am a person with a good heart unlike their black one.
  • I would do everything in my power to help. Regardless of how I felt about the person or what he/she did, there is no way I could just look the other way. It does not necessarily make me the good person, but it is the right thing to do. If the person died as a result of my unwillingness to help, I would carry the burden of that for the rest of my life.
  • They're still human. I gotta help them.
  • My morals demand I do no harm. If my worst enemy were in danger of death, I would still warn them and try to help them. If my worst enemy were dying, I would still do all that was possible to save their life. This is the first law of hospitality and humanity.
  • I put the past behind and I try to help. All life is very precious.
  • Of course I would help.
  • My worst enemies seem to be enemies for fairly good reasons -- I've made some nasty missteps. Pulling them from the crash would be a privilege... they may not forgive, but I would have one less regret.
  • If I hated someone that much, I must have loved them at one time for them to get me to hate them, so I would try & save them
  • 11 years on an ambulance and the training and vows of a 7th Dan Black belt Ninja would compell me to do all possible to save the person's life.
  • If I could help, I probably would. :)
  • Yes....they are still human and life is sacred. Perhaps the person would appreciate life more after such a close call and be a better person anyway. That would be nice
  • I would help because death effects many lives not just one.
  • Would help regardless of personal feelings, I am not a mean person and could never see anyone hurting and not be able to help regardless of what they had done to me!
  • Against everything else screaming inside me, I would help... Im a nasty person when Im mad, but never to that extent.
  • I would help. It's a matter of principle.
  • Be true to yourself. Don't let the other person set your agenda. Take the high road and help.
  • I would most certainly help, as Karma is a b1tch.
  • Yes I would help, no way I would pass up the chance to make them be grateful to me for helping them.
  • yes i would try to save them. maybe then they would let go of the past and hurt as well, because hello! you just saved their lives. i would be ever grateful even if i hated their guts to begin with.
  • I would help because to do otherwise would be against my nature and standards.
  • It depends what he did. If he's a child molester/rapist, then I'd probably let him die. If he was just rude to me (or something else personal but ulitmately insignificant), then I'd help him. If he had an affair with my wife, I'd probably let him die. If it were any number of politicians (particularly those of the Bush administration) then I'd let him die. If he was an enemy I despised yet respected, then I'd help him.
  • Yes I would because I would hope that they would do the same for me.
  • yes of cource i will help
  • Yes I would help, we are still humans, you know.
  • Its all about being the better person. I would help and take pride in knowing that I did the right thing.
  • I would still offer assistance. I could not let another human being (or animal for that matter), suffer or die because I was harboring bad feelings. Having said that, I am pretty sure that I would not offer comfort or aid to Osama Bin Laden.
  • I WOULD HELP TO SHOW THEM NOT EVERYONE IS HEARTLESS AND MAYBE THEY WOULD LEARN A GOOD LESSON IN LIFE.
  • Of course I would put the past behind me and help them! I don't think I could live with myself if I didn't.
  • No. He may be my brother but after everything hes done to me, I wouldnt even let the thought into my mind.
  • ahh it depends who it is...because if its someone who i hate...(thinkin about that person) i dont think i will help her...i'de prob watch her suffer and enjoy it...then i'de ask that slut if she needs any assistance only because shes the mother of my niece and nephew...other wise i wouldnt give a rats ass.
  • Be a good person in every situation, especially when someone's life is at stake.
  • Well I have no enemies, but if I did, I would help the person, it would all be behind me at that point.
  • I suppose it depends on why he's my enemy. But I imagine such an experience would help me figure out if the reason(s) is trivial or genuine. +5
  • I have some poretty strong feelings toward a particular perosn... so I considered him in the light of this question. I decided that I would never want someone to die, or to suffer, because I held a grudge against them. Short of their having murdered my family member, I would stop and help.
  • Naw, I'd stare intensely till the witch dies
  • I would let them rot and laugh on the way down the street. If there really that bad then it's one less piece of scum on this planet.
  • Most people that have a heart would put there differeces to the side and do all they could do. It couldn't of been that bad to let someone suffer.
  • I think if we are truthful about it and you are not putting up some kind of tough facade most of us would have to say yes. I say this simply because guilt is a corrosive emotion and we have to realize we only have one life to live and it should not be spent on regretting past wrong doings in which we had a chance to make a difference.
  • You stop and help. No question.
  • i would certainly help.
  • Of course I would help. No doubt about it.
  • I would help!! if not i would feel horrible and guilty! unless it was someone from the government...like nancy pelosi then id stand there laughing... ohh im evil aren't i hahahah
  • I would help, of course. How trivial being enemies is when someone's life is on the line.
  • I would call 911----eventually. Just kidding. I would help them in whatever way I could. As much as I feel right now that I wouldnt care if they suddenly dropped dead, my moral compass wouldnt allow me to just let them die if I could help.
  • I don't think I would help, not sure why I am the first person there, but I am sure I might call 911 but not sure I would help them
  • Tough one...the forst person I thought of was Bin Laden...him I would not help...I would probably finish the job, but if it was just a regular person that I had issues with I would help..I guess..or maybe just call 911..tough question
  • Of course you would unfortunately have to help! ha.ha!
  • I suppose I would help. Then I would never let the idiot forget that I saved their life, their dirt bag stinkin life. The idiot.
  • help out, you never know if your willingness to show compassion without any reason to do so (as they would see it) might be the help they need to choose to change.
  • C'Mon! This ain't no real ethical dilemma, is it? Ain't nobody that rancorous and vindictive! ;-)
  • I would help. First, you actually get arrested if you don't do anything, at least call some help. Second, I want to kill them myself, not some accident. Jeez. XD
  • I have read some of the answers and I think people are taking this far to idealistically and not realistically. With the assumption of a worst enemy that is despised for good reasons, it honestly matters what they did. I know a decent handful of people that could fall into that category that have stolen from me as well mentally if not physically abused me, I could say honestly at best I would call authorities to help them and that would end my involvement. While it is nice to see the lovey dovey nature of so many, I believe that not everyone has been put through the same things and so every term used is relative. Some people even admitted that they could not think of a worst enemy, so this holds a role in their answer.
  • If it was my ex, I probably 'wouldn't have seen anything'.
  • I think far too many people are answering this idealistically and not realistically or at least not without a clear cut of their perspective. From some of responses I noticed that some people don't even know anyone that would call a worst enemy. For myself, there are a handful of people that have stolen from me, used and abused me at least mentally if not physically to the point that death seemed kinder than a fellow human being, with that said, at most I would call authorities and let them know what I saw, beyond that they are on their own. It might not be so noble an answer, though I feel it is a more fleshed out version of truth from my own jaded perspective.
  • i just try to get away from them
  • Of COURSE! No doubt about it. I wouldn't even have to give it any thought.
  • if that were me in the crash--you would look the other way. sad.
  • Yes. The person will suffer more when alive. :)
  • actually, years ago a similar circumstance happened. i did what was right before i realized who i was helping or the possible danger.
  • I'd help them as much as I could while calling and waiting for an ambulance. But once they are put into more professional help, I would return to completely ignoring them.
  • I know what I'd like to do. But the truth is I don't really know what I'd do if the situation were to arise.
  • Depends, people would stop to help an old person out of some sort of consideration but would walk on if they found him to be a lifer getting out despite having served his due as the public wished done in their name. I don't hold grudges I either do or have done for me, So I've no open enemies but I'll fight like an evangelical atheist for those who I hold in regard. I always try and help in any way I can even if I dispise the person and am not allowed for various reasons to get at them then I'll still help them through someone else as I love chalenging problems if not the people.
  • In the second place, the best way to get even with one's enemies is to outlive them. In the first place, however, considering the nature of the person brought to mind, I think I would be doing considerably more harm than good if I helped. If and only if there are other people involved who are hurt or potentially hurt would I do something; otherwise the answer is a resounding no.
  • I may despise this person but I'm not heartless. I wouldn't put the past behind me and just forget about what this person has done to me, but I would step up nonetheless and help this person. Then possibly never speak to them again. I couldn't live having it on my conscience; knowing that I could have helped someone and didn't. That's just not like me. :)
  • No, I am a good person but I would still have to cut the guys throat.
  • being the asshole I am I would help......
  • i would love to be able to take the moral high road and say I would. But that depends on what they did to hurt me. I would have to think about it. And because I am not a hypocrite I would not expect help from someone I had wronged either. Let the negative points fly, lolz.
  • I don't despise anyone; I would try to help anyone.
  • I walk on.
  • help,that's what makes our races so different.he has that chose where as i don't
  • I'd do my very best to put our differences aside and help. I'm qualifying that because f the good reasons involved raping a child or something equally heinous, I might have a really hard time with it. If I knew for sure the person was a modern day Hitler, I might have to leave it in God's hands. But if it were a slight against me personally, I'd have to help.
  • Well, first off, I don't have enemies, so it would just have to be someone I didn't like or had done something bad to me. But it wouldn't matter anyway, as I would help as best I could, with whatever I had. I don't hold grudges and forgive everyone so of course I'd help them.
  • I would be too busy trying to save the persons life to notice who he/she was. +5
  • Always Always Help. Id stop to help a hurt animal even if it might do harm to me. I really pity someone who did look the other way.
  • I would help because I never hold that sort of a grudge against anyone. +5
  • If by first person there you mean I recognize them as the person who killed my wife as I'm driving by, then I'd continue on my way.
  • I would help. I would remember the Bible's admonition to not "return evil for evil."
  • I'd help the Obamas.

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