Posted on 11/01/2021 2:39:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
Thirty years ago, I was hiking alone on a section of the Appalachian Trail known as "Rocky Top" when I encountered two stocky young men. The thought occurred to me that they could easily kill me, toss my body in the brush, and get away scot-free.
Whether the thought occurred to either of them, I will never know. I passed them by with a brief nod and moved on quickly to the turn-off leading to my parked car. But I remained troubled, and remain so today, by the fact that I had been so completely at risk. I had been spared, but why? There was no practical reason why the young men shouldn't have dispatched me with a rock, stolen my wallet, and sailed me off the ledge. What restrained them?
Was it just the fear of getting caught? Or that I might be carrying a weapon, or might yell loudly enough to attract help? Or is there actually a moral boundary not to be crossed — a line that most humans have hardwired into our brains or that we have been taught? Was I just lucky that day to encounter decent chaps who would never hurt a fly, to say nothing of another human?
As the decades passed, I thought back to that meeting, wondering if the result would have been different had it taken place years later. Ten, twenty, thirty years later, has that moral inhibition dwindled to the point that the stronger group would think nothing of attacking the lone hiker? If I met such a pair today, alone and considerably less fleet of foot as I am, would I escape unharmed?
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Well, if the weaker people are friends with such entities as Smith, Wesson, Ruger and Colt, then that could stop us from killing them. :-)
Nobody has handed me a pistol and said “Cold Gun” or I might have shot and killed a buncha people. So, I guess I got lucky that way or the other people did.
"Good" people go to hell the same as bad people. Being good doesn't cut it. Following the Law (which is perfect) doesn't cut it. Being saved and having the Holy Spirit in you guiding you and praying on a daily basis to commune with God is the way to go. I would tell the preacher that "good" people lead others straight to hell (without knowing it).
Perhaps the two stocky men were only out for a hike, just like the author with the paranoid fantasy issue.
What stops us from stealing from people weaker than us?
He continued with your line of thought. Obviously just not being a murderer means one is “good”. So where does one draw the line?
“I don’t lie, well not big ones that matter or would hurt somebody...”
That might be good enough for society, but not for God.
“There is none righteous, not even one”.
"What Stops Us from Killing Those Weaker than Ourselves?"
Where I live, everybody from the newspaper boy to the guy driving the ice cream truck carries a gun...
... so there's that.
Freeper Squantos had that as his tag line long before Mattis popularized it.
WOW!
So they’ll BOTH get eaten together.
If All Dogs Go To Heaven then why should any of them try to be good?
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