Faith challenges our natural human instinct for justice and revenge
My son warned me how I would feel after having had my phone snatched in a bike-mugging in London: guilty and stupid. Guilty because I had (possibly carelessly) allowed my electronic life to be ripped out of my hands. Stupid because I wished I had kept a more permanent and alert lookout for the thieves who now seem perpetually to prowl our streets.
But the swooping Nazgûl on turbo-charged electric bikes either skilfully grab phones at passing high speed or, more brutally, knock their victims to the floor while doing it, to impede resistance or recovery. If they strike unseen, the act of robbery is instantaneously effective.
