“Big effing pussy. He walked away to call daddy. I’d have killed the old fag in the shower.”
True.
But even if he made the wrong decision in the moment; he had years to attempt to correct things.
I disagree. It’s one thing to not chastise j-walkers, it’s another to see an adult man sodomizing a youth, and walk away. The degree of wrongness in this case is so extreme, that inaction is a sign of severe moral weakness. Between j-walking and rape, there are an infinite number of situations, with unknown reactions, but child rape should not be allowed as one of them; 15 items in a 14 item lane, not so much.
True. But we have minimal standards of behaviour. If you see what he saw and don't call 911, you are a moral coward and deserve criticism.
“NOBODY knows what they would do in a given situation until they find themselves in such a situation.”
Maybe. It’s safe to say I don’t know how I’d react in some circumstances.
But I’m pretty sure if I saw a grown man sodomizing a 10-yr old boy in a college locker room shower, I wouldn’t just walk away. For anybody that I would classify as a real man, the only decision would be whether or not to physically intervene first, or to call 9-1-1 first.
Most mothers with 10-yr old boys of their own likely would have attacked Sandusky with every ounce of strength they had.