Often, when tragedy strikes an innocent victim, the pharse, "wrong place, wrong time" is used. What happens if the person is waiting for a bus, the bus arrives on schedule and he gets on, but a plane falls out of the sky and hits the bus? Then, the phrase, "wrong place, wrong time" would not necessarily apply to this situation. The phrase is usually applied when a child is at a store buying a carton of milk and a robbery takes place and the child is injured. Wrong place, wrong time.
Where am I going with this? Is there a right place, right time? For example, let us take the case above where a child is buying something in a grocery store and a robbery takes place. Let us swap out the child and say that a pedophile is in the grocery store buying a carton of milk and the same events happen, would that be the right place and right time? Being that it is a pedophile (and most pedophiles project such nice personalities), people would say still say that he was at the wrong place and at the wrong time. Then when they find out he is a pedophile, their perception will change that he was at the right place at the right time.
Let us take it one step further, would the robber who fired the fatal shot be rewarded for ridding the world of this menace? Then in this case, the robber would be in the wrong place at the wrong time, because he only wanted to rob the store and not shoot a pedophile. But let us replace the pedophile with just any type of fugitive with a bounty. Would the robber be eligible for the reward? The fugitive would be at the wrong place at the wrong time, and so would the robber. But in this case two wrongs probably made a right, but for who?
We should just settle that things happen and the rightness or wrongness of the place or the timing is purely subjective.
Where am I going with this? Is there a right place, right time? For example, let us take the case above where a child is buying something in a grocery store and a robbery takes place. Let us swap out the child and say that a pedophile is in the grocery store buying a carton of milk and the same events happen, would that be the right place and right time? Being that it is a pedophile (and most pedophiles project such nice personalities), people would say still say that he was at the wrong place and at the wrong time. Then when they find out he is a pedophile, their perception will change that he was at the right place at the right time.
Let us take it one step further, would the robber who fired the fatal shot be rewarded for ridding the world of this menace? Then in this case, the robber would be in the wrong place at the wrong time, because he only wanted to rob the store and not shoot a pedophile. But let us replace the pedophile with just any type of fugitive with a bounty. Would the robber be eligible for the reward? The fugitive would be at the wrong place at the wrong time, and so would the robber. But in this case two wrongs probably made a right, but for who?
We should just settle that things happen and the rightness or wrongness of the place or the timing is purely subjective.
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