RE: In situations that affect other people, how often do you think other people choose to do what's best for themselves instead of what's best for society?

I answered
76% or more

This is not my personal score. I think that I'm a very considerate person. I am a good listener and can see other peoples point of view, but I don't think that the majority of people are like that. My life has taken a turn in the last couple of years and opened me up to a world that I never knew existed and I have met some of the most deplorable people and now I seem to only see these type of people. Its horrible and I'm hoping I'm in a dream. No-one is your friend, everyone only thinks of themselves and would steal off their own mother, men seem to have no problem with hitting women/their partners and no one does anything about it and I just cannot believe I am witnessing this. I was in my room 2 days ago with headphones on listening to music and I have it loud and generally cannot hear anyone. Well, I heard this scream/cry of a child sooo loud that it made me jolt up. I took my headphones off and continued to hear this child screaming and I heard what was making him scream - a man (who I soon learn is his father) was hitting him sooo hard that I could actually hear the impact of the hits on the child's body. Now just to paint a picture. My room is approx 50 mtrs from the road on the 2nd floor of an apartment block. My window does not face the front, it faces the side and I had earphones in listening to loud music and I could hear the impact of the hits on this little boys body. Well, I jumped out of bed (this is all within 10-20 secs of realising what it was) and ran out the front. I didn't know where they were, but I was gonna find them. I ran to the road and looked up and down and there were quite a few people in either direction but didn't take long to find the $%^$!. I can't put what I want to call him here, so he is expletives. He was just about the hit him again and I yelled out and said don't you dare touch him! There were some low-level choice words that I was expecting from this monster in return and also telling me that he was his father. I said I don't care who you are, if you lay another hand on him, I will be calling the police. I tried to intimidate me by walking towards me and looking threatening. I don't scare easy and have this ability to not show fear or that I'm scared, even when terrified. But I wasn't terrified or scared with this monster. He stopped and called me a few names, like I care, lol but one thing he called me was a do-gooder. WTF!!! He thinks that me stopping him bashing his child is a do-gooder!! This is the world we live in. There were a lot of people around on the street that would have seen this incident and not one said anything at all. I came from my apartment to do something as I could not sit there and not. The screams were gut-wrenching. It went on for a couple of minutes and by the end, he was not so angry and actually had a different look on his face. A look of sorry and shame. Here's hoping he might take a look at his actions. I ended with, "you need to be a better father and person so they can have a good role model to help them grow into decent young men". We live in a society where people can walk past a man bashing a child and no-one does anything (well except for me), this is a prime example that people only care about themselves and would choose what is best for them than for the good of society. I can tell you that eradicating child abuse is for the good of society - people say they care and it's deplorable and if I saw someone doing that, blah blah blah. It's only words to most, unfortunately, because when they witness it and they have a chance to do something about it, they couldn't give a shit. I have lots of stories, though this is probably the only one involving a child in that way. Lots of involved children, but never getting hit like that