This woman everyone is dunking on is paralyzed from the waist down. This is the Paralympics.
If you find yourself on the couch dunking on paralyzed women, maybe log off.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic once said something that has stayed with me. He recalled going through David Beckham’s playlist one day and chuckling at the songs he found there. Beckham, noticing the grin on his face, asked what was so funny. Zlatan, in his usual braggadocious fashion, smiled and said something to the effect of, “It’s beautiful to see that despite your good looks and all the places where people think you’re almost superhuman, there is still somewhere you fail miserably.”
My mind went back to that story because I believe the same thing is happening here with Jim. Despite all his articulateness, despite the poise with which he carries himself, despite the breadth of his exposure, his thinking is, unfortunately, no better than that of the average Nigerian.
This is one of life's greatest mysteries: are wild animals conscious? Does he know he's dying? Is he scared? Afraid? Did he even know he was alive in the 1st place? Does he have regrets? Or was it all just instinct from the sunrise to his sunset? Hunt, eat, rest... rinse, repeat.