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Originally Posted by zamler
100% agreed. But the prevailing attitude seems to be eff those people they need to take responsibility for their own safety.  Well yes they do but within reason, two people in two days have died. There are all manner of mechanisms in society that save people from their own carelessness or stupidity why are these train stations exempt from this?
Wait, you can judge how well he drives by 3 seconds of video? Wow. |
When it comes to stupid mistakes people tend to differentiate between strangers and friends/family. It's easy (but cold and heartless) to point to strangers and statistics and say "who cares? If they're stupid enough to do X/not pay attention, then I don't feel bad for them, let's not worry about upgrading safety for every idiot".
The hypocrisy of these people would hopefully never come, but it would be when they're mom/dad/kid/friend had a momentary lapse in judgment that cost that them they're life as they became the "idiot".
I guarantee you their mom wouldn't be branded the idiot that they brand everyone else as. Their mom would be an incredible person that must of have just had a momentary lapse in judgment and they'd look at the public comments as cruel and heartless, and they wouldn't be able to understand how people could be so cold.
Most make no connection to strangers because that takes extremely high levels of empathy. It's easy to read an article and go "buddy's an idiot", but make no mistake, it's hypocrisy as like I said, no one is hearing about a close friend/family member dying and remaining consistent.
I'm not saying we should baby proof society or shouldn't call more pedestrian awareness, I guess I just always find the comments on these incidents kind of cold and tough to read. We're all people.