Angels, Knights, and Dragons

We have a choice before us, one little blip in our lives to decide the rest of this man’s life, and more. We can ask the question of whether he broke the law, whether some piece of paper somewhere says you can’t do what he did. He had a choice. He chose to come before us. I can’t call him guilty. Did he do it? Yeah, but he’s not guilty. It seems to me the question becomes, “What kind of world do we want to live in?” If we say he’s guilty, we’re saying—it’s more than just saying it—we’re making a world where there are less knights and more dragons, less good men and more bad. The man he killed, well, I can’t judge him; he went before a different judge. I don’t know why he was bad, but he was. The decision is before us, not just of whether this man goes to jail or not, but of the kind of world—the kind of people who will make up our world. I want more men like this walking the streets, not less.