Re: Another level crossing death

MIG wrote:

On 31 Mar, 16:32, Chris Tolley <cj...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
MIG wrote:
From some of the postings here, you'd think that life-saving medical
treatment ought to be refused to anyone who isn't in possession of a
valid ticket ...

Which postings are you alluding to?

The harshest I've seen could be summed up as "if you disregard the rules
of the railway which are there for your safety, then you must carry the
full responsibility for whatever is the outcome." As such, that seems
reasonable, doesn't it?

"Full responsibility" for the consequences of breaking rules could
have interesting implications, many of which wouldn't be reasonable.

What if your presence on the other side of the lines was only possible
because you misused the crossing (and survived) and you were then
mugged and stabbed? I would have thought that the mugger bore some
responsibility, despite the fact that you were only there as a result
of breaking some rules. Similarly, if someone objected to what you
did and assaulted you, I would think that they were responsible for a
disproportionate response.

An interesting diversion, but neither of the cases you invented would
fit in the category where the breaking of the rule was the cause of the
harm to the person - in both cases it would be the action of someone
else.

Pretty well everyone is where they are today having at some point in
the past broken some rules. Does that mean that they are fully to
blame for everything that happens to them and can never deserve any
sympathy?

The degree of culpability towards one's own demise is likely to elicit
sympathy in inverse proportion, especially in situations that those
commenting understand well enough to avoid such thing happening to
themselves.

There are many threads in this group including postings which would
seem to concur with that (but perhaps only if they are railway rules).

Either you haven't drafted your filtering rules very well, or else you
are exaggerating for the purposes of debate. I certainly don't see many
such postings.

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