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Full headline blah blah Dreamwidth's crappy subject length limitations yadda yadda: "'I had to do it to save everyone': Man breaks into school and shelters more than 20 people from blizzard"
"Always look for the helpers."
-- Fred McFeely Rogers (and his mother)
Yeah, this was a (mostly) feel good story about people triumphing over adversity...
...but...
...one bit of it rubbed me the wrong way, as such has done in the past.
No, I do not think I'd call it a "blessing" that all those other people turned this guy away which let him coincidentally be in the right place at the right time to break into that school and save himself and those other people, but... I suppose it turned out all right in the end, even so, which is good. Though the fact that they were all stuck in a horrible blizzard at all was, perhaps, not so good.
*tries and once again fails to refrain from veering into the whole "I mean, if God (actually existed and) was truly benevolent as so many people like to claim, then He wouldn't have put all those people in that situation in the first place, let alone required those other people to be selfish in order to allow this guy to save the ones in danger, and besides why did God supposedly put special emphasis on just those 20 or so people, and not the many other people who died during the blizzard that He, being God and all, also could have saved but didn't, and also why did God even bring/allow the terrible blizzard down on everyone to begin with?" thing*
*shrug + weary sigh*
My (semi-facetious) take, again, is that we're probably all living inside a universal computer simulation, and "God" is just some bored kid with His finger constantly hovering over the natural disaster button.
"Always look for the helpers."
-- Fred McFeely Rogers (and his mother)
Yeah, this was a (mostly) feel good story about people triumphing over adversity...
...but...
...one bit of it rubbed me the wrong way, as such has done in the past.
No, I do not think I'd call it a "blessing" that all those other people turned this guy away which let him coincidentally be in the right place at the right time to break into that school and save himself and those other people, but... I suppose it turned out all right in the end, even so, which is good. Though the fact that they were all stuck in a horrible blizzard at all was, perhaps, not so good.
*tries and once again fails to refrain from veering into the whole "I mean, if God (actually existed and) was truly benevolent as so many people like to claim, then He wouldn't have put all those people in that situation in the first place, let alone required those other people to be selfish in order to allow this guy to save the ones in danger, and besides why did God supposedly put special emphasis on just those 20 or so people, and not the many other people who died during the blizzard that He, being God and all, also could have saved but didn't, and also why did God even bring/allow the terrible blizzard down on everyone to begin with?" thing*
*shrug + weary sigh*
My (semi-facetious) take, again, is that we're probably all living inside a universal computer simulation, and "God" is just some bored kid with His finger constantly hovering over the natural disaster button.
