Of course it does. There’s no way that the driver deserved that in any sane moral system, or for that matter almost any moral system post the Middle Ages. It is a terribly vengeful, horrific desire. It scares me that I can have that sort of desire in me. I’m very much not in any way advocating that this is a good thing. The argument is solely that if one feels this way over a death from negligence what it must be like to respond to a death due to deliberate action?
The argument is solely that if one feels this way over a death from negligence what it must be like to respond to a death due to deliberate action?
Perhaps incredibly difficult to be rational in such a situation. Accordingly, I’d down-grade wedrifid’s assessment of their behavior from “disgraceful” and “evil” to merely irrational and incompetent.
upvoted for empathy remark, but I don’t know JoshuaZ, a “slow painful, agonizing death” for a mistake sounds too vengeful to me..
Of course it does. There’s no way that the driver deserved that in any sane moral system, or for that matter almost any moral system post the Middle Ages. It is a terribly vengeful, horrific desire. It scares me that I can have that sort of desire in me. I’m very much not in any way advocating that this is a good thing. The argument is solely that if one feels this way over a death from negligence what it must be like to respond to a death due to deliberate action?
Perhaps incredibly difficult to be rational in such a situation. Accordingly, I’d down-grade wedrifid’s assessment of their behavior from “disgraceful” and “evil” to merely irrational and incompetent.