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Credit where credit is due
Dec. 17th, 2012 06:45 pmI haven't posted about the Sandy Hook thing because I don't have much to say that hasn't already been said by countless others in the last few days (and the time before this, and the time before that...)
But this story, about a girl who survived by playing dead among the bodies of her friends, managed to piss me off:
Pastor Jim Solomon told ABC News: "She ran out of the school building covered from head to toe with blood and the first thing she said to her mom was, 'Mommy, I'm OK but all my friends are dead."
"Somehow in that moment, by God's grace, [she] was able to act as she was already deceased... How at 6 and a half years old can you be that smart, that brave? I think it's impossible outside of divine intervention. She has wisdom beyond her years."
I'm used to this whole weird twisted thing where if a disaster doesn't kill quite as many people as it might have, God-of-speaker's-choice gets credit for the ones who survived, instead of being held responsible for the ones who didn't (or for the memories that kid is going to carry for the rest of her life). It's kinda like one of those private-public partnerships where the profits are privatised and the losses are dumped on the taxpayer.
But I'm infuriated by the attitude that a six-year-old girl couldn't possibly have been smart enough to do this of her own accord. Kids can be pretty resourceful! She's already suffered a horrendous loss, do we really have to rob her of the credit for using her wits to keep herself alive?
But this story, about a girl who survived by playing dead among the bodies of her friends, managed to piss me off:
Pastor Jim Solomon told ABC News: "She ran out of the school building covered from head to toe with blood and the first thing she said to her mom was, 'Mommy, I'm OK but all my friends are dead."
"Somehow in that moment, by God's grace, [she] was able to act as she was already deceased... How at 6 and a half years old can you be that smart, that brave? I think it's impossible outside of divine intervention. She has wisdom beyond her years."
I'm used to this whole weird twisted thing where if a disaster doesn't kill quite as many people as it might have, God-of-speaker's-choice gets credit for the ones who survived, instead of being held responsible for the ones who didn't (or for the memories that kid is going to carry for the rest of her life). It's kinda like one of those private-public partnerships where the profits are privatised and the losses are dumped on the taxpayer.
But I'm infuriated by the attitude that a six-year-old girl couldn't possibly have been smart enough to do this of her own accord. Kids can be pretty resourceful! She's already suffered a horrendous loss, do we really have to rob her of the credit for using her wits to keep herself alive?
