What If? For Veteran's Day

A man gave me a gun and said, “Kill that person over there. Kill that person because he wants to kill you. Kill him because he has hate in his heart. Kill him because everything we cherish is at risk.” I placed the gun on the ground and, with tears in my eyes, said, “I cannot kill that person over there, even if he wants to kill me. I cannot kill him because I don’t have hate in my heart. I cannot kill him because, if I did, everything I cherish would be at risk.”