It&#x27;s worth noting that the Good Samaritan stopped for a man, and it&#x27;s likely the Samaritan was running a real risk of an ambush and mugging. We&#x27;re all free to choose not to stop, which is the premise of the story, but the point of the story is that stopping is the right thing to do.<p>Though for people who aren&#x27;t Christians, it&#x27;s just a convenient metaphor.