Originally posted by: Xavier434
Originally posted by: SoulAssassin
If there was a child playing on the highway it was only a matter of time before natural selection took care of the weakest link.
Wow...I am going to go out on a limb here. You don't have kids? Do I win the prize?
I am an excellent parent and my child is 4 years old, and I feel I can speak for all parents when I say that it is truly amazing how quickly a child can run from you when you turn your head for just 5 seconds. No matter how good of a parent you are, this just happens sometimes. The child isn't stupid. It's not about "natural selection". It's just a child. On top of that, you mentioned:
Originally posted by: SoulAssassin
I haul ass up the exit and the job site I'm working at is a couple hundred feet from there.
..so we are not just talking about the highway here.
Now be honest with me, if that exact case happened where a child happened to run out in the middle of the street and you killed it because you could not slow down fast enough, would you use natural selection as the argument to make yourself feel better about it? How about if someone else were in your shoes and killed a friend of yours who decided to J-Walk across a street and the driver was doing exactly what you did? Would you just say to yourself that it was natural selection and shrug the whole thing off as if it did not happen.
Come on man...all we are saying is that you should be more responsible just in case the worst happens you know?