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Chalo
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Jasper Janssen <[email protected]> wrote:
(Chalo) wrote:
>
> >When someone _chooses_ to drive a car, and someone else loses his or her life because of that
> >choice, the driver bears at least a share of the responsibility. Banning drivers who kill from
> >continuing to drive is reasonable and proper, regardless of fault.
>
> To continue on your example, what you're saying is if strychnine is found in someone's sandwich
> and it's determined that he put it there himself, the person make the sandwich should be banned
> from making sandwiches, or that when someone takes a bottle of sleeping pills the issung
> pharmacist should be stuck with selling cough medicine henceforward.
Not really. The issue here is that it's not the mistake that causes a collision that makes a
collision deadly-- the critical factor is whether a car is involved. People or cyclists don't kill
when they collide.
Since only the car driver determines that critical factor, responsibility for fatality in a
car-human collision rests with the driver. Any other arrangement is not only unethical, but a
structural incentive to drive a car for everyone who can do so, because in doing so one can escape
the negative consequences of their actions.
Chalo Colina
(Chalo) wrote:
>
> >When someone _chooses_ to drive a car, and someone else loses his or her life because of that
> >choice, the driver bears at least a share of the responsibility. Banning drivers who kill from
> >continuing to drive is reasonable and proper, regardless of fault.
>
> To continue on your example, what you're saying is if strychnine is found in someone's sandwich
> and it's determined that he put it there himself, the person make the sandwich should be banned
> from making sandwiches, or that when someone takes a bottle of sleeping pills the issung
> pharmacist should be stuck with selling cough medicine henceforward.
Not really. The issue here is that it's not the mistake that causes a collision that makes a
collision deadly-- the critical factor is whether a car is involved. People or cyclists don't kill
when they collide.
Since only the car driver determines that critical factor, responsibility for fatality in a
car-human collision rests with the driver. Any other arrangement is not only unethical, but a
structural incentive to drive a car for everyone who can do so, because in doing so one can escape
the negative consequences of their actions.
Chalo Colina