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To help, or not to help? 

Net users are once again debating what passersby should do when they see an elderly person fall, when he fell off his bicycle on Monday in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province.

With folded arms, passersby looked on, refusing to help, as a witness called an ambulance and began forming a "safety island" around the man until help arrived. The man was taken to hospital where he was treated for minor injuries.

"I was worried about the old man since no one wanted to help him, but several reports of Good Samaritans being wrongly accused for their help have scared me off," a witness told Hangzhou-based Qianjiang Evening News on Tuesday.

The event came as Net users remain outraged by a case earlier this week in Dazhou, Sichuan Province, where an old woman reportedly made three children pay up after helping her up, accusing them of causing her accident in the first place.

The woman in her 70s was given a 7-day administrative detention by police, but was excused due to being above 70 years of age. She maintains that she did not fabricate events.

But Net users, who have been hardened by countless similar tales in the past of seniors taking advantage of people who have come to their rescue, said that there is nothing wrong with people wanting to protect themselves - even if it means failing to lend a hand.

"The helpers would have had to pay a high price if they were wrongly blamed for the fall," said Net user Yingxiaorenchenwuyong.

The sentiment was echoed through an online poll from news portal sina.com.cn, which found that more than half of the 28,384 participants would be hesitant to help a fallen senior out of fear that he or she would be blamed for their injuries. Only 10 percent said that they would help without first considering the consequences.

Net users who criticized the hands-off approach argued pasionately that helping someone in need "is simply the right thing to do."

But others like Net user Di Yongqing denied that their refusal to help meant "they had no conscience," saying that the government should do more to legally protect do-gooders to encourage people to do the right thing.

Net user Yang Yanming, meanwhile, offered up a solution, perhaps for next time.

"If lots of people had helped the man up together, all of them could serve as witnesses in court, if it came to that, which would lessen their likelihood of being framed for the accident by the old man," said the Net user.