FoxNews has up a commentary on the incident of last week where NBA Star Antonio Davis ran up into the stands during a game to defend his wife. There has been much back and forth on this issue - he started it, she started it, etc. - but this commentary has it right, I think. Davis did the right thing in going to his wife's aid... even if SHE started it. He did not start a fight, nor did he take any aggressive action. He simply inserted himself between the combatants and waited for security to arrive. The NBA also did the right thing with its suspension of him - even if he did the right thing - because they can not allow players to go into the stands (and possibly start a riot) without consequence. If this incident went unpunished, then other less mature players might use it as an excuse for worse behavior later.
There are times in life when one MUST defy the "rules of the occasion" in order to obey the "higher rules of life" that exist. Character is shown in knowing the difference, and in accepting the consequences. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi knew this and accepted prison for their passive resistence. Anthony Davis is no King or Gandhi, but the concept holds true. Sometimes a man's manhood is proven more by accepting consequences with equanimity, then it would have been by fighting them.
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