Abstract
Should you take an attacker’s life to save an innocent person? What if the innocent person doesn’t want you to? In this work of philosophical short story fiction set in the Old West, a law man is put on a train as backup to protect a safe full of money heading west. While on the train, he meets a preacher and his wife headed to the same town. Mid-trip the local gang springs into action, starts shooting up the train, and going after the safe. One of the younger of the gang panics and grabs the preacher’s wife and puts a gun to her head as a hostage. The lawman knows he has a clean shot and can drop the man, but the preacher pleads against taking the life of another, even in defense of his wife. The young man panics, kills the wife, and spreads her blood all over the preacher’s face, before being apprehend. The lawman is disappointed, but the preacher goes to speak (unsuccessfully) at the criminal’s sentencing and asks the court to spare his life.
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