You’ve seen the headline…
“Angry, Blood Thirst Police Officer Guns Down Unarmed Innocent Child.”
Strategically, the media released short clips of video footage recorded by people in the street that were so concerned about the “innocent child” that they decided to, yup, get out their phone.
Outrage strikes a portion of the population. Cities burn. People get hurt. People die.
Eventually, things calm down. Cities get back to working order, the media is on to their next outrage porn, and life goes on.
Years later, buried deep in some obscure section of the “news” websites, there’s an update to that “blood-thirsty murderer cop” story.
Turns out, the “innocent child” was actually 23, got pulled over, had a massive amount of drugs on him, went for the cops gun, and was shot and killed.
I’m not talking about any particular instance, but we’ve all seen this script before many times.
We see it on social media. You make a post, someone disagrees with you and replies with some snarky remark, you go back at them, they cry.
We see it in basic conversation. Someone challenges you in some way. You come back harder than they expected. The cry.
We see it in sports. Someone takes a cheap shot at one of their opponents then a teammate ends the guys night. People cry.
We see it in war. A country gets viciously attacked. That country then goes on the offensive and strikes back 10 times as hard. The original attacker cries.
The moral of the story is simple.
In life, don’t punch first.
And if you do, expect to get 10 times whatever you gave out in return. And when that happens, you are NOT the victim. You brought it on yourself.
-KC
