So, let me preface anything here by saying that I am writing in a virtual fit of frustrated rage! (I'm sure you're intimidated.) I have held the view for a while that the testicular fortitude of the American society (especially the American man) is on its way out the door. Much of this due to political correctness, and other ridiculous concepts gone to extremes. This however, I am not interested in debating here. What I am more concerned with is the impact these changes will have on my children and future generations. Over an over I read stories like this and I am disgusted with wussification of the American man.
This story is about a man in Westboro, MA who gets angry at a kid at a skating rink and so how does this man resolve his problem? A 40+ year old man attacks: kicks, punches, yells at a 10 year old kid. He beats the fire out of this 10 year old in front of an ice skating rink full of adults. I am ENRAGED by this. But apparently no one else was. While this disgusting atrocity was being publicly committed NOT A SINGLE PERSON stepped forward to help. All these pathetic excuses for men (and women for that matter) sat there and watched this all happen. There is no excuse. There is no justification. Nothing you can say, no variable will ever make the decision to permit this beating, the right decision.
It would be one thing if this were a single isolated event, but it's not. Far from it. I could scour the Internet and find story after story of horrible crimes taking place in front of even hundreds of people who do nothing. What is this all about? Are we really so pathetically egocentric, so disturbingly pragmatic and concerned with our own well-being and safety that we are not willing to, for one moment, take a chance. And yes, I acknowledge that it is a chance. Sometimes a large chance, sometimes not much of a chance. In the case of the man at skating rink, he had no weapon and looked like a strung out meth. addict (I know meth addicts...I lived in Arkansas) . He was not intimidating.
So I ask myself, and I ask you, what would happen if you were in the same situation? I'd like to think that I would charge at that guy in an instant. I would throw him on his back and make sure (through whatever means necessary) he didn't move until police arrived. I might be arrested. That's OK. I may end up with a record. That's OK. I may have saved the life of a small child who was being abused; that is well worth a police record.
Now, I am certainly not a very physically imposing man. I am 5'7 and 160...how's that for scary. So I am definitely not pulling the "macho man" card here. If I am to be honest with you, the only card I AM pulling is the Christian card.
I don't know exactly how Christ would handle that situation. Whether or not Christ would throw the guy off and beat him within an inch of his pathetic existence is beyond me. But I know that Christ loved more fully and more completely than anyone else could ever do. I assume that means some kind of mercy for the bottom-feeder of a man I want jailed indefinitely. I'd like to think that with plenty of time to think and decide, that I would make the exact right Christ-like decision. However, when I'm in the moment and I see something like that taking place my base instinct will tell me this must be stopped and Christ would want it stopped. Beyond that, I still have room to grow as a Christian. But I know that I would honor God with my decision and strive to always intervene. What would you do?
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