He Ran Over My Daughter-2

And...my final words on the subject:
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[quote=segbrown;610469] We'll never rid the world of violence ... that's what I mean by accepting reality . . . The world is a messy place.[/quote]

Seg, I know you're a thoughtful and caring person. I've read some of the things you've written on Epic and have admired your thoughts.

And, in this instance, you're just plain wrong.

If you re-read your sentence, from above, I could NOT disagree more stringently:

• There is NO eventuality that the world is violent.
• There is NO eventualy that you have to accept the "reality" of a violent world.
• There is NO eventuality that the world is a messy place, unless you (and tens-of-millions of others) keep saying it is.
• There is NO reason VailDad did this other than his inability to control his temper and take the right path (of non-violence and tending to his daughter).
• And...there is NO reason a civil society has to act the way VailDad did or more importantly, that other members of that society should "understand" his actions.
  

Simply put, there is no reason and I mean NONE, that we should approve, agree with or even "understand" what VD did.

I'm not John Lennon or Rodney King, but I do think in many ways they got it right...Can't We All Just Get Along?

VailDad was wrong. He should have completely taken care of his daughter; exclusively. There was no reason to go after the boarder because that young man didn't matter. Now, VD's daughter has to live with the horrible vision of her Dad watching her get plowed over, live with the vision of the man she loves and admires getting wiggy on some guy and live with the horrible conclusion that she had something to do with all of that. 8-year old girls get screwed up for life, for far less than that. Can you imagine how scared, terrified and horified she must have been, first knowing that she's "bleeding to death" (my words, not hers and maybe not even the situation but 8 year olds are either OK, or they're bleeding to death) and then watching her Dad's anger boil over into violence? You think she's going to live with that for the rest of her life - count on it!?!

These are life-changing moments and in her most significant time of need, VailDad decided to mete-out-his-brand-of-justice, instead of truly caring for his daughter and letting the "authorities" and other civil citizens take care of DrunkenBoarder.

No, it's not an eventuality...it's not "the way it is" just because you keep saying so. We could change all of this, seriously...on a big scale...we could change this.

We don't have to accept the world as it "is", just because we can't figure out a way to change that.

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? - Bobby Kennedy as borrowed from George Bernard Shaw