Tuesday, March 18, 2003
Hold your breath |11:04 AM|
I use the term "Take a bullet for" an awful lot, as a description of how I much of a damn I give about someone.
It works well, since if you were to actually take a bullet for someone, it would require immediate, selfless action. There wouldn't be time to weigh possible options, you've got to jump right in front of the guy in the clown suit with the gun and try to take it in a less-vital organ.
This raises a couple issues, like, why don't I push the person out of the way of the bullet? To this I answer, "I'd probably end up pushing them in front of a car, and then I'd feel terrible. And shot." Why should I take the bullet? "Because I know how to be hurt a lot better than I know how to comfort the injured."
So the last couple paragraphs were half joking, as I seriously doubt the issue of someone I know being shot at will come up at all. Much less, a situation in which I can throw myself in front of the shot in time. But an issue that's raised is who exactly qualifies for my use as a bullet shield? I would at first say my closest friends and family, but if I was on the street and the issue arose, would I just stand by and let some other jack ass get shot? All you can really do at that point is yell, or try to shove the target, or... nothing else really.
I'm clearly just rambling. I was just mulling this over, just thinking about what a person would have to do or say for me to think "Well, gosh, that guy's about to shoot 'em. Too bad." As oppossed to throwing myself toward the attacker (As I would have done previously). The immediate instinct to protect and defend remains my default, and I guess someone would have to really piss me off before I'd think twice, or think at all, in that situation.
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