Moral choice?
Higgs_Boson
Published
07/27/2013
So typical of a wannabe blogger, I come here to rant and express
experiences. So an hour ago, I am woken up by shouting. As it is very
hot and my window is open I hear loud and clear, and it is a drunken
couple a man shouting and a women, he then begins to drag her off by her
hair, I run downstairs and outside, to be accompanied by my neighbor,
the man had let go of her hair, they were moving off but he was still
screaming at her. They were now a good 300 metres down the
street by this time, him still shouting at her. In this situation I
decided not to get involved, a drunken couple in my experience will just
turn on you if you try to intervene, my neighbor had just rung the
police so I felt that the best course of action was to turn around and
go back in doors. But as I was about to turn I see him grab her by the
hair, pull her to the ground and starts to repeatedly punch her in the
face. I don't know what came over me, I can't explain
it I am not a fighter, or someone who has had a fight ever as a matter
of fact but seeing that, the next thing I know I am at full sprint
screaming from the top of my lungs for him to get off her, my neighbor
is at my side. For the life of me I have no idea what I was going to do
when I got there. He looked up and made to run off, as we closed to
around 10 metres, a police car screeched around the corner and the two
policemen inside the car detained the man and radioed for help for the
women. As I have said, I have absolutely no clue
what I was going to do as and when I closed on him. In hindsight a
massive part of me tells me that choosing to run into a potential fight
was a bad thing, thinking on it if we had have started beating him up,
the police would have come around the corner a split second later to see
two men beating one man up, with a women on the floor bleeding. I would
have been arrested for assault and perhaps charged and given a criminal
record. But what could I have done, just stood there and watched? What
would you have done? Thankfully the Police were there when
I wanted them to be there for once, and no more split second decisions
had to be made, but yeah well that's what happened...
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