Mockingbird questions #5

Throughout the book To Kill a Mockingbird Jem and Scout learn life lessons from things that happen and are also taught lessons by their peers. One lesson from chapters 22-28 is when Atticus was explaining why Tom had lost the trial he said to Jem "-whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is...that white man is trash"(page 220). I think this lesson is, because you have an advantage over someone that doesn't mean you have to use it. Like earlier in the book Mrs. Maudie said that Atticus is a dead shot. He does not take advantage of that, i think that is what he is trying to teach Jem to do.
I do not have many ways i could take advantage of people and i don't know many people that could either. One way is i used to go to pioneer with a retarded kid and i sometimes, thinking i was funny, might take advantage of him and blame things i did on him. This is not the case now because i never see him and plus i would never do that...anymore. I am glad at OHS there is not a lot of people that get picked on or taken advantage of and again i think that is what Atticus was trying to teach Jem.