Am I a bad person for refusing to help someone out of fear?

In today’s age lots of bad things happen and it’s only getting worse. People take what’s not theirs and commit in sinister acts. I’ve heard countless stories of people stopped on the road waving for help just to rob the passerby stopping to come help. It’s subconsciously a defense mechanism that you don’t realize. If we lived in a world that was safer and bad things never happen I guarantee you would have lent out your phone to this person. I’m not saying that your interaction he has bad intentions but you never know in todays world and really subconsciously you were just trying to protect yourself and there’s nothing wrong with that. If he needed a phone that badly and no pedestrians were lending him one he could have used one in a corporate or a restaurant or some local business by him and it’s even worse if he steals from there so that’s better and causing him to likely not steal a phone because he could get in worse trouble stealing from a company

You did the right thing. There are times when you need to protect yourself over others wants/needs. It's not being selfish it's just looking out for your safety/well-being. Who knows if you would have handed them your phone and they took off with it. I find that us with OCD are always trying to appease or help others but theres just certain times we can't or shouldn't. I hope this helps. God bless.

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