X, I think here you are discussing, or expression your opinion, of the idea of martyrdom, in a generic, abstract way.
There are a range of possible opinions or convictions one could have on that subject. And most people would know of one incident of martyrdom that they felt very foolish, and another that seemed to them both noble and right. (I am thinking of the non-Jewish teacher, Catholic I believe, who, rather than abandon his students on their journey to the gas chambers, chose to go with them to death.)
But in an individual case we don't have to debate The Concept Of Martyrdom: Rational or Irrational and decline to see what happened to the specific life of the specific martyr.
Assuming the facts are as we have understood them, this is what happened in Littleton, to this one individual.
She did not engage in an analysis of martyrdom and make a logical error. What she did was, in a split second in which her life was in the balance and a gun was at her head, try, when she was asked the question, "Do you believe in God?," to be the best, strongest girl she could be.
Of course she did it according to her lights, and according to what she was taught. That's how we all try to "be good" in this world.
And X... the remark about the gene pool? Way cold.... So I'm glad you didn't say it. |
