You wanted to know who "truely walked The High Road?"
Dude, give me a break.
You, who have very little experience, and are very young, and are relatively new to this world, presume to come onto this board, and judge people according to their answers to a nonsensical, theoretical, navel-gazing, wannabe hero, posting. You presume that the answers are true. You assume that you are somehow better than others, who you don't know, don't understand, and have never walked in their shoes.
For some of us, discussions like this aren't theory, and they aren't some little make believe hero game on the internet. Some of the people who you are testing to see if the "walk the High Road" do this kind of thing for a living, and have done so longer than you've been alive.
Some of us teach people to defend themselves. In the real world. Against real threats. Where their actions can lead to death for themselves, their loved ones, and others. Where the repercussions of their actions can cost them their freedom.
If I have a student, who carries a gun to defend himself, who chooses not to get involved in your scenario, because it is certain death, so that he may be able to return home to his wife and children who depend on him, not walking your version of the High Road? So I can safely assume that you, in your smug condescension, are somehow better tham him?
Words are cheap. Life is hard.
Some days the internet pisses me off.
