From: cdw2t@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (Clifford David Weston)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Deer Claims Another; Thoughts
Date: 22 Jul 92 03:47:27 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Virginia

In article <5017@transfer.stratus.com> cdodson@beast.cac.stratus.com writes:
>In article <JEP.92Jul21141223@thneed.cs.duke.edu> jep@cs.duke.edu (Jonathan E.>Polito) writes:
>> In article <9900936@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> ron@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ron Miller)  
>>writes:
>>>   [ story of a motorcyclist colliding with a deer and some useful
>>>   thoughts on emergency equipment ]
>>>   but was of rage. HOW COULD SHE BE SO ALMIGHTY STUPID TO BE RIDING WITHOUT
>>>   A HELMET!!!!! She is free to choose to ride helmetless but I, nor any of
>>>   When you reject the "cost to society" argument, please remember that you
>>>   are also spitting in the face of suddenly involved strangers who will be 
>>>   inconvenienced by your decision. They cannot spit back at you as you lie 
>>>   unconscious and bleeding on (or off) the road.
>> What kind of TV land do you live in that your priorities are so askew?
>> How can you say that you are inconvenienced by someone dying that
>> requires your help? There are not too many things more important than
>> life.
>> Man talk about cold.
>Talk about missing the point...
>What kind of reality are you living in ? He was THERE !  He as every right to
>bitch. He had to face the ugly reality of someone lying mangled on the  
>pavement. Being an intelligent rider, he could only wonder why a fellow
>rider would choose not to wear a helmet. Get a clue buddy, and realize 
>that he DID stop and help.

jonathan never said the guy wasted an hour debating whether or not to help,
or that ron shouldn't have questioned the woman's decision to ride lidless.
ron did mention something about a mandatory samaritan law, but he was the
sixth cage on the scene, so he wasn't bound by law to stop and offer aid.
but questioning the woman's intellect and bitching about the _inconvenience_
of helping an accident victim are pretty far apart.  he didn't _have_ to stop;
others were there.  he accepted the inconvenience and lost his right to whine
about it.

when you come upon an accident and help the injured, is the foremost emotion
afterward one of resentment that they wasted your time or of satisfaction
that you helped someone in need?  i've been first on the scene three times,
and i never felt imposed upon.  healthy, bleeding, shocky, unconscious,
decapitated -- i've felt frustrated but never pissed that they ruined my day.
what the hell else did you have to do that could possibly have been more
important?

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