I will try not to spoil the movie for anyone who plans to see it but I watched Jodie Foster in “The Brave One” last night and it inspired some thought. If you have seen the previews, you know that the movie is basically about revenge.

Some of the comments I overheard last night were variations on “That woman is crazy.” The thing is nobody really knows how they will react to certain situations until it happens to them. Empathetic people can, to an extent, feel for the person in question but until you’ve been there you don’t know.

So many people say with the utmost righteousness that they would never … whatever it is - lie, steal, kill. But when placed in a situation where they are challenged to look into themselves, those same principles may be put aside for the “right” they feel.

Throughout time, humans have grappled with issues like:

• is lying wrong if it saves someone else some pain?
• is stealing wrong if it saves a life?
• is killing wrong if it is in the defence of “right”?

These are questions to which everyone thinks they know the answer but there isn’t one. Even those who stand by religious principles and quote the Bible and its commandments, may one day find themselves in a situation where the preservation of themselves or of those important to them or even of those very ideas they defend brings them face to face with questions like these.

It is just something to think about because you never know.