re: Fictional lost limbs
Okay, yes for noble, and yes for turning the other cheek, and yes for being above reproach despite what your enemies do, but I for one am getting bloody sick and tired of the Republicans being told to stand there take the High Ground while the Democrats and their media buttmonkeys rip their balls off with a vice grip pliers.
I really don't care how virtuous it makes them look. It's not like they get any credit for virtue anyway.
It may not be okay for a kid to say he's doing something wrong because someone else is doing it, but neither is it okay to dismiss as completely unimportant the fact that the other kids have been stealing his lunch money for months.