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The parable of the Good Samaritan does address this phenomenon and I tend to judge the Christianity of those who profess that faith when they miss the point.
The Samaritan isn’t good just because he helps when others do not. The Samaritan is doing the sacred work of god by risking his own safety to rescue the injured man! The Samaritan values another life above his own, and in Christian ethics, this is an act of love and human fraternity.
The reason that the priest and the other traveller justify ignoring the man is they fear falling victim to the same bandits. It’s not that they lacked the ability to help a man it’s that they lacked the spirit and morals to RISK SOMETHING.
I am not Christian but I do think they got something right, here. Sin isn’t just doing bad things, it’s also refusing to do the right thing because it’s hard or it’s risky even though you have the means.
That kind of thinking ends up at conclusions that mesh well with what Engels called Social Murder
Clearly these are not new ideas but what is new is the capitalism-riddled iteration of it we are currently experiencing.