“I made a mistake, but you guys are trying to put me away for 10 to 20 years—on a mistake,”
A mistake?
A mistake is when you hit reply all to an email to talk shit about your boss. A mistake is when you push a door clearly marked pull. My son not wearing the wrist strap on his VR controller and breaking the TV was a mistake.
A girl dying because you couldn’t be bothered to put your goddamned phone down and do your fucking job is not a mistake.
Mistakes don’t result in the death or serious harm of another person.
It’s all fucked, but if you read on you’ll see that it is possible that she was put in a position where she may have been required her not to pay attention to the kid - by that I mean her employer required her to use her cell… Which would distract her. For the whole bus ride? Definitely doesn’t sound like it…but caused her to have distractions, absolutely.
It’s mostly her fault, but don’t excuse management for her conflicting job duties. They should share the sentencing - everyone who has a say in the affected company policies. That’d fix the problem and future problems. We’ll probably stick it all on her as a person failure though.
That’s funny, because when I’ve advocated making driving a strict-liability activity, the usual response is that we shouldn’t “ruin people’s lives” over a mistake that killed somebody.
It’s one thing when something unavoidable happens like a kid darting out from behind a truck and not being able to stop in time. It’s another thing if someone is willfully not paying attention and careens into a crosswalk full of children. So I would both agree and disagree with your sentiment depending on the circumstances.
A mistake?
A mistake is when you hit reply all to an email to talk shit about your boss. A mistake is when you push a door clearly marked pull. My son not wearing the wrist strap on his VR controller and breaking the TV was a mistake.
A girl dying because you couldn’t be bothered to put your goddamned phone down and do your fucking job is not a mistake.
Mistakes don’t result in the death or serious harm of another person.
It’s all fucked, but if you read on you’ll see that it is possible that she was put in a position where she may have been required her not to pay attention to the kid - by that I mean her employer required her to use her cell… Which would distract her. For the whole bus ride? Definitely doesn’t sound like it…but caused her to have distractions, absolutely.
It’s mostly her fault, but don’t excuse management for her conflicting job duties. They should share the sentencing - everyone who has a say in the affected company policies. That’d fix the problem and future problems. We’ll probably stick it all on her as a person failure though.
Any workplace safety advocate will tell you that mistakes do, in fact, result in bodily harm and death.
They frequently do, actually.
And when looked at closer it’s mostly negligences not mistakes.
It’s both. Negligence is a type of mistake.
Yeah an avoidable one. That’s why it’s specifically called negligence.
Except it only takes a single second to make someone make a mistake. There are so many factors.
That’s funny, because when I’ve advocated making driving a strict-liability activity, the usual response is that we shouldn’t “ruin people’s lives” over a mistake that killed somebody.
It’s one thing when something unavoidable happens like a kid darting out from behind a truck and not being able to stop in time. It’s another thing if someone is willfully not paying attention and careens into a crosswalk full of children. So I would both agree and disagree with your sentiment depending on the circumstances.
“Oopsie, accidentally shot a ceo 😅”
tbf this also was no mistake
Maybe he mistook the CEO for an illegal murderer.