Cowards leave their families in the care of the nanny state and abandon them recklessly and irresponsibly... doncha know...
He didn’t know he was going to die by intervening.
How would you feel if someone murdered your child because someone just stood by and watched it happen?
Sometimes you do what is right for the sake of it, regardless of the risk to yourself.
There are no guarantees in life. He could have stood by and watched the boy get murdered and died in a traffic accident on the way home anyway.
You’re despicable for advocating that he let that he stand by and let that kid get killed just so he didn’t take any unnecessary risk to himself.