[quote=@Jig]
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Wasn't the whole thing with the original Samaritans that they were basically pricks like everybody else, but there was one non-prick among them?

I'd give 'em a miss.
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[i]Actually[/i] the Samaritans were the offspring of Hebrews who married foreigners when they weren't supposed to so when Israel went back to pretending to obey the law they kicked out all the half-bloods because they didn't want to share the inheritance (a.k.a. the Promised Land) with them, but since the Samaritans still operated under Jewish law and kept most of the customs they were basically Jews, and it was the Israelites who were pricks to them, and treated them like outcasts, thus spawning resentment between the two peoples. In the eyes of the Israelites, Samaritans were thought of inherently evil just by existing. 

That's why the phrase "Good Samaritan" was such an oxymoron during the time of Jesus. Calling a Samaritan good had the shock-value equivalent of calling Mother Theresa evil.