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Re: Where is Our Social Conscience?
by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com)
on Jan 02, 2003 - 06:50 PM
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I don't believe the point of this is to lay blame on anyone, but to take the blinders off and make people see the WHOLE side of an issue:
1) tanks aren't easy to see out of. Yes, people are trained to operate them, but people also are trained to operate CARS (by FAR more easy) and how many dolts accidentally kill people each year, by their fault or others? The whole incident should have been investigated clearly, not just trying to find a way how the drivers fucked up and killed two girls, but why it happened to BEGIN with...which includes both parties...the tank AND the girls.
2) What were the girls doing in the path of a tank? Would they not hear it coming? Would they not FEEL it coming? If they were young enough not to know better what were they doing on a road by themselves that had tank traffic? If they did hear and see it coming why didn't they get out of the way? I know here in the US, it's illegal to ride a bike and wear headphones on the streets because you can't hear a possible oncoming car. If you do so, and dont' hear it, and are hit and injured/killed the driver is less responsible for the accident, because as a pedestrian you are responsible for your own saftey when putting yourself in a dangerous situation. It doesn't mean that if you see a kid on a bike with headphones you can run his ass over and get away with it, but it's there to say "Hey dipshit, you're on a busy street with big cars moving fast. Pay attention."
I don't know that if someone threw themselves in front of my car that I would beg the other family for forgiveness. I would express my condolences that their loved one chose to do something so horrible, but alas it's not my fault. If it was an accident, like it was dark and rainy and for some reason we didn't see each other, I would express my condolences and hope they forgive me, but accidents happen, and their loved one was as responsible for the accident as I was. It sucks, it's lousy, it shouldn't have happened but it did.
I have as hard a time faulting someone who's been run over by a tank as I do exhonorating them simply BECAUSE they were run down by a tank. Depends on the situation, and I wasn't there so I don't know.
If I ran a country and had recieved a notice from an advisor that there had been a fatality accident involving one of my troops and civilians of that said country, it was deemed an accident, I would most likely call and express my condolences, and apologize that it HAPPENED.
I don't believe in apologizing for things you aren't at fault for.
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