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[quote user="zugmann"] Explain your last sentence in more depth - I do not follow.  [/quote]   You asked me to explain this sentence that I stated above: “I am asking you to separate the issue of whether the crash was the driver’s fault from whether it could have been prevented, because they are two different issues.” Here is my explanation of that sentence by means of a hypothetical example:  Say that you have a man who is deaf, and he walking along the outside of one rail of a railroad track in the fouling zone.  Behind him, a train is approaching, and the engineer is blowing the horn in warning but the man cannot hear it.  He also cannot see it because it is behind him. The train is too close to stop in time.  So the train hits the man and kills him.  It is the man’s fault because he was trespassing and exposing himself to obvious danger. Now say we back up to just before the train hit the man.  This time the engineer realizes the man cannot hear because the engineer is blowing the horn and the man is not reacting.  So the engineer gets out onto the pilot, and just as the man is about to get run over, the engineer give the man a hard kick and knocks him clear.  So the man does not get killed.  In the first case, the man was killed and it was his fault.  In the second case the inevitable death of the man was prevented.
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