Portland Mourns Two Heroes Killed While Defending Teen Girls

I would like to know the answer to that question as well.

Seen where a mom in Utah locked her kids in the trunk while she went to Wal-Mart.

People have lost their mind.

Yes, it has. Question is... What are we all going to do about it?

As for the people who did what was necessary because it was necessary and for no other reason: Praise them with great praise.

I mean that with all the heart of the source quote. Praise them.

I can only hope that if I find myself in a moment where such a thing must be done, that I do that thing without hesitation because it must be done.






As for evil, what can we do? For one thing, I think we should generally stop trying to shield our young from the knowledge of evil. I think American papers should not edit out the gory aftermath of evil. I think that if one knows evil, then even if it scars, the knowledge of it will burn itself into one's heart and mind; with that knowledge, an understanding of selfless duty.

For my own part, I recall long ago picking up some book my father was trying to read. Ghosts of the Balkans, Balkan Ghosts, or some similar title. I do not recall exactly. I read one chapter and put it down. It told of some of my own people being slaughtered as cattle, in detail. I will not describe it in detail here, but to further say that it was cold, mechanical, and yes....so horrifically banal. True evil, worse than our own Daleks, for it was without purpose beyond its accomplishment. The mental images that formed troubled me. They still do. How can that be done? How can it be to do that? How can it be to have it done to oneself? How?

The same with the recounting of the sentences following trials for witchery. The same for humanity's countless acts of inhumanity. I cannot help but picture it, see it, smell it. But no matter how much I am troubled, a greater good was worked: because I was exposed to this knowledge, I came to understand the need to fight such evils in whatever way one is capable. It is necessary.

I do not meant to imply that one should deliberately send one's children into a month of sleepless nights, but absolute shielding from the knowledge of evil must be avoided if evil is ever to be fought or even simply known and then avoided.

Yeah and, again, an acknowledgement of good. The heroism you see in fictional characters isn't just an exaggeration for dramatic effect. It can and does exist in real life.

Desmond Doss was a conscientious objector who refused to bear arms during World War II as a medic. He was awarded the Medal of Honour for his efforts to save lives. Irrespective of whatever side they were on. Francine Christophe was an eight year old Jewish child taken to Bergen-Belsen camp who gave up her chocolate, the only thing she had left from France, so a woman's baby might live. The young girl survived thanks to that single moment of charity.

We remember the monsters, the murderers, the killers, the cowards, but we should also remember the people who made a difference. That's why I always say remember the paramedics, the firefighters, the lawmen, the volunteers. Remember the names of those who did good, remember them more than those who did evil. Because they are real and they do it without need for praise and at risk to their own existences.