“But I say to you who are listening, love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who are cruel to you.” Luke 6:27-36
Just thinking about the writers’ various idiotic comments about Ward’s character... how do you not understand your own character? Why don’t they, of all people, get that Ward is clearly not your typical abuse victim? (And they are the ones who gave Ward that background in the first place!!!)
Okay, let’s talk about another fictional character that has been abused- but only in his childhood because it didn’t continue afterwards. (And, Ward’s did continue because of Garrett.)
Judd Travers from the book/movie Shiloh- father abused him as a child. No one ever felt sorry for him, so he never felt sorry for anyone else. He is really mean, dishonest, beats his dogs and neglects to feed them if they do something he doesn’t like. Even though he is a huge pain in the butt and mean to the protagonist- Marty (a boy who wants to keep one of Judd’s dogs) at some point tries to show Judd kindness by leaving him food and writing nice letters to him.
Most people would try to avoid any interaction with mean people, let alone go out of their way to show them kindness, especially when that person has given you a lot of grief. You look at a character like Judd and think- wow, this guy is never going to change. He’s just way too mean. And it kind of seemed to be that way, because he made a deal with Marty and tried to break it, then let him have Shiloh, and in the second book Judd tried to take Shiloh back again.
But guess what? He did start to change in the end. He started to treat his dogs right and became nicer to other people too. This couldn’t have happened without Marty showing kindness to a man who was only so mean because no one had been nice to him before.
I really believe that if Coulson and his team had given Grant Ward a real second chance and a lot of help/therapy, he could’ve became a good person and started to have a much happier life.
