“What if you saw a little kid being bullied and assaulted by a much larger individual?”
Oh yeah? Maybe the little kid just stole some candy from an even littler kid, and that’s his big brother who stepped up to save him. And now you jump into the mix not knowing who from who, and which from which. So someone tells you to shut up, and you pull a Glock and use all 17 rounds. And then when you’ve turned them into Glockamole, you find out you shot the big brother. Smooth move.
All over some caramel m&m’s.
Bet you never thought of THAT, did ya?
Ya.... Thought of that. Seemed extremely unlikely so I rejected it out of hand. But if it assuages your guilt... that’s what is important.
Actually, the argument was between a person saying they would never say anything to anybody doing anything bad, unless it directly impacted them personally, and a person saying it was OK to tell someone they parked illegally in a handicap space.
So in the the analogy, the response we are looking for is “telling the one kid to stop hitting the other kid”, not “shoot everybody and let God sort it out”.
While the opposing side was “it doesn’t impact ME that some kid is getting beat up, so I would just keep walking and not say anything, because why risk myself for someone else”?
The right response of course in a civilized society is to dial 911, walk up to the kids, tell the boy to stop, and then if he doesn’t, to intervene using the least amount of force necessary to separate the two, while you determine what is happening. This could get you killed of course.