Justin says: are you saying that people who walk on railroad tracks deserve what's coming to them?
Someone who is walking on a trolley track has acknowledged and accepted that his future might include being hit by a trolley. The reason it seems less unfair to take out the man on the tracks is that dying that was was a risk he himself had decided to take. By staying on the tracks he has, in an odd way, given a trolley permission to run over him. The man on the bridge hasn't.
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Date: 2006-07-31 05:32 pm (UTC)Someone who is walking on a trolley track has acknowledged and accepted that his future might include being hit by a trolley. The reason it seems less unfair to take out the man on the tracks is that dying that was was a risk he himself had decided to take. By staying on the tracks he has, in an odd way, given a trolley permission to run over him. The man on the bridge hasn't.