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should you feel sorry for her????
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I hope she recovers and learn from her mistakes....I wouldn't want her to die or anything but hope she seriously take what happen to her as a sign of things to come if she continue down that road.
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Had I known what she had done? I don't know if I would have stopped. I'd like to think that I would, I'd prefer to say that I'd let her think about what she had done and make a call to 911 a couple hours later. But, I don't know how I'd react.
If I didn't know, then I imagine I would have stopped.
Like Eric, neither have I. Nobody's life was in danger when I made snow angels in my underwear. They may have wanted to go blind if they had seen, but I don't think that's quite the same. There are different levels of stupidity, and anyone doing something like this, and clearly unable to distinguish silly from life-threatening, needs to be removed from society for society's protection.
Actually, if she had continued down the road, she would have been arrested, but wouldn't have been hurt.
Sometimes when I laugh at when people get hurt I feel ill, even if they got hurt hurting someone else.
but then I remember I don't have a conscious or any sort of moral compass.
but then I remember I don't have a conscious or any sort of moral compass.
Why the heck did she just jump off the bridge? I guess she's just really stupid in addition to reckless.
It would have been funnier if she had tripped on one of the rocks she had thrown or something though.
Poetic justice, though I hope she's not permanently injured. That's not deserved unless she actually DID hurt someone.
How stupid though. Throwing rocks at cars off a bridge...that's practically asking to hurt someone.
It would have been funnier if she had tripped on one of the rocks she had thrown or something though.
Poetic justice, though I hope she's not permanently injured. That's not deserved unless she actually DID hurt someone.
How stupid though. Throwing rocks at cars off a bridge...that's practically asking to hurt someone.
So is driving when a little drunk, driving too fast, taking any number of foolish chances, as most of us do, and which most of us survive.
william sire
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I guess I'm happy that I can. Whatever thought process existed in her mind didn't bring to her consciousness that she could have done the same or worse injures to someone else. Only that she was having fun. Perhaps those injuries will teach her something. Then maybe not. But the hope is if it doesn't she'll die next before the next innocent motorist gets killed by her stupidity.
william sire
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Malice is not necessarily involved in throwing things off bridges, either. You might just want to "see what happens". You might just do it for the "craic".
Faulty examples; driving too fast is selfishness (wanting to be someplace faster) that could potentially result in harm if something went wrong. It's a risk. If you are successful, no one is hurt.
Throwing rocks at cars? You are directly TARGETING people and ATTEMPTING TO DAMAGE THEIR VEHICLES. If you are successful, then someone at best takes several hundred dollars in damages and at worst is killed.
As for driving a little drunk, I have never done it and hopefully never will.
There's a difference between throwing objects for the fun of it (I've rolled rocks down a hill before) and throwing objects at people driving. If you are targeting another human being and trying to cause them damage (i.e. hit their car with a rock while they're driving at a high speed), it is malice.
Same with guns.
"Officer, when I aimed the gun and pulled the trigger I only wanted to see what would happen. It's not my fault the man died."
They weren't innocently tossing pebbles off of a bridge; they were throwing rocks at oncoming cars. No matter which way you present the deed, malice is clearly present.
I must admit that I feel somewhat sorry for her. I don't feel sorry for her falling off the bridge, but what I do feel sorry about is that she had to throw rocks off the side of a bridge to obtain some sense of satisfaction. What could be worse than lacking the human decency to care about the life of another human being? If she didn't feel any sense of wrong when she was hurling rocks onto oncoming traffic, she deserves to be pitied.