Influencer Jack Doherty, 20, appeared to be distracted on his phone before crashing his US$200,000 car while driving and live-streaming in heavy rain in Miami.
Okay, admittedly ‘a normal person’ is a quite low bar. A reasonable, ethical person then.
They totaled a several-hundred-thousand-dollar car in front of a million people, and the insurance won’t cover it because they were texting. If he’s capable of learning from mistakes, I’m sure he has.
What? You think his parents mortgaged their house for that car? Or that he paid for it, and his lifestyle, entirely from his streaming earnings? lol no.
If he hit a triple to get there, you might have a point. But he was born on third base, and something tells me his parents aren’t going to send him back to first.
But maybe you’re right, maybe we’re in the dawn of a new day where rich kids crashing expensive cars, and walking away unharmed, will actually make them better people and help them grow…
What a time to be alive when suggesting we shouldn’t wish physical harm on an idiot teenager / young adult who we’ve all been at one point, is met with such fierce opposition.
No, it’s not wishing harm, it’s wishing to prevent future harm to innocent bystanders.
He wasn’t doing donuts in the parking lot, or some other relatively isolated teenage idiocy.
He was engaging in behavior that could have easily killed an entire family who just happened to be on the road with him. Considering he comes from wealth, and walked away unscathed, I doubt any lesson was learned, because that’s what history shows us.
Because of that, the odds are high that this won’t be the last time he takes the lives of innocent bystanders into his hands for hearts and likes.
I’m sure when we read the article in 6 months how he mowed down a mother and three kids while live streaming, you will still feel the same way.
I don’t know the statistics, but I wouldn’t be surprised if more than 99% of drivers have, at some point, looked at their phone or engaged in some other distracting behavior while driving. It almost never leads to an accident. What’s the difference then between someone who ends up killing someone and someone who doesn’t? Bad luck - that’s the difference. I’m not going to pretend that this unlucky person is somehow morally exceptionally reprehensible, knowing that it could just as easily have been me. If you’re in the tiny minority who has, from day one, put 100% of your focus and attention into driving every single time you get behind the wheel without exception, I applaud you. But understand that this is extremely rare. That’s why I see it for what it is - an unlucky accident and I’m glad no one got seriously injured.
Oh, I get the confusion. You didn’t actually read the shitty article.
Admittedly, it’s not really worth reading. But, if you’re going to die on this hill, you might want to give it a glance.
This wasn’t some one-off example of distracted driving, or poor decision making from an unformed mind. It’s a pattern of behavior, that has been conditioned, and reconditioned into him.
It is extremely unlikely, that this little hiccup, changes that for him. I’d say the odds of that happening are about as good as you winning the lottery.
Edit: After reading Foggy’s comment providing even more information, I take back everything I said and am now actually upset that he lived. The world would have been made slightly better had he not survived.
Okay, admittedly ‘a normal person’ is a quite low bar. A reasonable, ethical person then.
They totaled a several-hundred-thousand-dollar car in front of a million people, and the insurance won’t cover it because they were texting. If he’s capable of learning from mistakes, I’m sure he has.
What? You think his parents mortgaged their house for that car? Or that he paid for it, and his lifestyle, entirely from his streaming earnings? lol no.
If he hit a triple to get there, you might have a point. But he was born on third base, and something tells me his parents aren’t going to send him back to first.
But maybe you’re right, maybe we’re in the dawn of a new day where rich kids crashing expensive cars, and walking away unharmed, will actually make them better people and help them grow…
What a time to be alive when suggesting we shouldn’t wish physical harm on an idiot teenager / young adult who we’ve all been at one point, is met with such fierce opposition.
How unreasonable of me.
No, it’s not wishing harm, it’s wishing to prevent future harm to innocent bystanders.
He wasn’t doing donuts in the parking lot, or some other relatively isolated teenage idiocy.
He was engaging in behavior that could have easily killed an entire family who just happened to be on the road with him. Considering he comes from wealth, and walked away unscathed, I doubt any lesson was learned, because that’s what history shows us.
Because of that, the odds are high that this won’t be the last time he takes the lives of innocent bystanders into his hands for hearts and likes.
I’m sure when we read the article in 6 months how he mowed down a mother and three kids while live streaming, you will still feel the same way.
I don’t know the statistics, but I wouldn’t be surprised if more than 99% of drivers have, at some point, looked at their phone or engaged in some other distracting behavior while driving. It almost never leads to an accident. What’s the difference then between someone who ends up killing someone and someone who doesn’t? Bad luck - that’s the difference. I’m not going to pretend that this unlucky person is somehow morally exceptionally reprehensible, knowing that it could just as easily have been me. If you’re in the tiny minority who has, from day one, put 100% of your focus and attention into driving every single time you get behind the wheel without exception, I applaud you. But understand that this is extremely rare. That’s why I see it for what it is - an unlucky accident and I’m glad no one got seriously injured.
Oh, I get the confusion. You didn’t actually read the shitty article.
Admittedly, it’s not really worth reading. But, if you’re going to die on this hill, you might want to give it a glance.
This wasn’t some one-off example of distracted driving, or poor decision making from an unformed mind. It’s a pattern of behavior, that has been conditioned, and reconditioned into him.
It is extremely unlikely, that this little hiccup, changes that for him. I’d say the odds of that happening are about as good as you winning the lottery.
Edit: After reading Foggy’s comment providing even more information, I take back everything I said and am now actually upset that he lived. The world would have been made slightly better had he not survived.