(June 10, 2019 at 11:55 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Oh, I wasn't implying that at all. It's a shit show regardless of what people hope to gain from it.
I didn't think you were. I was just thinking "out loud" about it.
In all fairness, I'd probably feel pretty good about myself if I was able to stop a school shooting. I'd like to think that would stem from the fact that children who would have died lived, rather than from some sense of heroism on my part. I've been a handful of situations in my life where things were a bit sketchy, but it seemed like someone needed help, and the last thing on my mind was, "Oh, boy. Someone's going to pat me on the back." You either get scared and run or you just don't think about it and go for it. I don't think I can blame people who get scared and run. I've never personally run from someone who needed my help, but I have a panic disorder, so I've run from far less frightening situations, like phone calls, grocery shopping and a variety of social gatherings. I know fear intimately, and I don't blame people for giving into it. Sometimes, you have no choice. You shut down. That's all there is to it.
