Re: Re: Liability: I'm not responsible for your kids!
- From: Merle Finch <merle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:19:25 -0400
On 16 Oct 2005 07:04:20 -0700, Banty <Banty_member@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>In article <PMk4f.15409$q1.6194@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Alt-Ctrl-Del
>says...
>>
>>
>><trader4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>news:1129382392.104882.109900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> "What I am trying to say is, don't worry about your own life when a
>>> little
>>> precious, innocent, life is slipping away. Do what needs to be done and
>>> if
>>> both of you die in the process, it was worth it to try. The baby
>>> wanted
>>> you to try. "
>>>
>>> Are you for real? Maybe YOU want to throw away your life in a futile
>>> attempt to save a child. But most reasonable people would not. The
>>> track record of people unskilled in rescue jumping into deep water to
>>> save someone else is not a very poor one. Many times both wind up
>>> drowning. And here you have a lady that could not even swim, and you
>>> think she should have jumped into a rain swollen creek and just thrown
>>> the child to shore? How realistic is that? Have you ever seen a rain
>>> swollen creek, how fast the current moves and how chaotic it is?
>>>
>>> Like most people, if I have a shot at saving a person, with reasonable
>>> risk to myself, I would do it. But I don't make a big distinction
>>> because it's a child. Nor would I knowingly sacrifice my own life in a
>>> foolish rescue attempt which is only likely to result in two people
>>> winding up dead or perhaps putting even more lives in jeopardy as
>>> rescue workers now have to try to save two people, instead on one.
>>>
>>
>>You know, it would be interesting to know how many of the people
>>responding to this message have children. It is always the individuals
>>without children that are able to make hard, cold, matter of fact,
>>cavalier, suggestions regarding what they would do in a situation like
>>this.
>
>Oh come off it.
>
>This thread is crossposted to misc.kids, and many of the responses to which you
>refer come from parents.
>
>There are a number of us who both understand that we would personally step in
>front of a bus for our own children, but also understand what the limits and
>considerations are, especially concerning saving others outside our family. An
>ability to assess things in a matter of fact way being one attibute of a good
>parent after all.
>
>Banty
Right on. It's a parent's RESPONSIBILITY to stay alive to raise
his/her children and not altruistically throw away their lives to save
someone else's. My absolute FIRST responsibility is to the child I
chose to bring into this world. That includes taking care of myself,
driving responsibly and not jumping into the rapids for a futile
cause.
.
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