Big difference between hiding and actively participating. But maybe it is just you. At fourteen, I would certainly have hidden from certain death if I had the chance, but I would not have participated in something reprehensible if I knew that people who said no were left alone and not bothered. He was in no danger and he *knew* he was in no danger, of anything except losing his tuition assistance. Evidently, innocent life does have a price to this Pope, and it's not terribly high.