This is a thinly veiled censure of the kid for being too weak. In Brooks' opinion it is apparently a weakness to sacrifice one's self for the sake of others.

This is a thinly veiled censure of the kid for being too weak. In Brooks' opinion it is apparently a weakness to sacrifice one's self for the sake of others. A huge portion of the US would agree, which seems extremely confusing to me given that this is tends to be the same segment that is highly Christian. Their Bible must have been different from the one I had growing up.