Quote: (09-08-2014 12:08 AM)Tuthmosis Wrote:
Quote: (09-07-2014 11:12 PM)Windom Earle Wrote:
the 18 year old girl sitting next to him...appealed to him for help.
The mental test of whether this is white knighting or not is whether he would have done all that if it had been something other than an 18-year-old girl.
In this case a 50 year old women would have had no need of saving, as she would be looking forward to an afternoon of rape-sex by a bunch of young men.
Of course we men do more to protect some women and children and this Guy was only a White Knight in so far, that he refused the cash offered by the woman's family. This was just unnecessary pride.
Apart from that - frankly I might have done the same. The girl likely would have been not only raped, but killed afterwards. There is no shame in risking your life for someone. And yes - I would have done the same for a guy, if I knew they were about to drag him off and kill him for some bogus reason (because he belonged to some religious sect they were not fond of, they did not like his skin-color etc.)
White Knighting is for example cock-blocking someone in a club or getting into a fight trying to protect a woman, who needs no protection, since she is just having a fight with her husband.
Risking your life in some instances for a good cause and even for a stranger is heroic and exemplifies greater human nature.