Posted by: Recon Number 54
Might as well ask the next logical question.
Okay, you "stick up for yourself" (whatever that is) and despite the fact that you absolutely know that you're better able to stand on a moving bus than the person who you have decided is "their own worse enemy and responsible for their own problems" and you maintain your seat, he sighs, shrugs, and waddles off to grab an nearby pole and does his best to hang on.
The bus takes a turn, hits a bump, swerves and this man goes tumbling (when fit and morally superior you would have bent your knees and handled it). Still his fault? He falls and injures himself? What if he falls onto someone and they are both injured? Still his doing? Still feeling morally just and proper? You didn't contribute to the harm done to him and maybe others? Do you still feel good? Maybe even laugh at this example of cosmic justice?
Who would be contributory and somewhat responsible for those injuries? He tried to take steps to make his bulk more safely seated, his attempts to do so were denied and rebuffed (no pun intended). Does he sue the bus line? Does the little girl that he crushed? The driver for not making sure that people in obvious need of being seated were not seated and were unsafely standing and a danger to others?
Just wondering how this plays out in the minds of others.
Thats really not his fault. Its an accident. Falling and injuring someone else or yourself is an accident.