The girl who was run over

[Lucifus]

Traffic laws hardly matter here.

This holds true for China, especially with the influx of new drivers on their new road infrastructure who believe the roads to be a massive free for all.

Edit @ above: Are you seriously trying to take every word literally? I don't believe or equate the value of a human life to a plant. I was trying to break things down for you, since you have difficulty understanding. Otherwise, there must be some deep miscommunication here.

What are you trying to argue? That the parents hold zero responsibility whatsoever, and should hold no guilt?

Please clarify this in your next post, because I truly find myself unable to follow your reasoning.

Oh god lord, why are you so stuck on these wikipedia syndromes? Do you think we (or maybe just me?) are that uneducated/inexperienced in life?

If I wanted to become a victim blamer XanBcoo, here's what I'd do.

That stupid little girl deserved it, she ran into the vehicle on its own territory. What right had she to be on the road? She deserved to have her bones crushed and bleed out without a soul to help her. Stupid little brat. I feel sorry for the truck drivers who had their lifes ruined by the careless actions of this little girl.

You need to remember, that this innocent, guiltless two year old child is the true victim here. I understand that the parents are victims as well, but to a lesser extent, and you can be damn well sure that they're feeling the guilt for not being with their daughter at the moment of the accident.

Yes, the parents are not guilty for the majority of the fault (according to the little information we have, and assumptions made - and pray tell Mr. Bcoo, there is no other accessible information that I know of. Of course assumptions are being made, but I think you need to relearn the definition of Assumption) whatsoever in the fact that their child was run over.

They are guilty of leaving their child outside of their immediate care. Not of getting in a van and running over their daughter. How much of this neglect was factored into the occurrence of the accident, I have no idea. That is up for people with more information to decide.

You also seem to misunderstand, that at least in my case (I can't speak for others, though I am somewhat certain they share this point of view), the parents are not the root cause or even a significant cause of what happened to their child, but they do hold a percentage of responsibility. Ask them yourself if they feel guilt; they probably (another assumption, woe is me!) feel even more guilty than they actually should.

I am merely saying, at this point with the information that I have, that they shoulder at least a small percentage of the burden (for not having been watching their daughter, though for all I know, the mother could have been just a few feet away sitting down with no idea her daughter had been run over), despite not having anything to do directly with the accident.


Edit 2: BETTER QUESTION. This should help me understand your point of view.

XanBcoo, let me propose a hypothetical situation for you. Say you had a daughter, and you took her out shopping with you. You get a phone call, and it starts going on for longer than you had expected. You sit down, and get into a deep conversation and your daughter wanders off without your knowledge, or even worse, you tell her to go play outside. Stay by the window. Regardless, you don't see your daughter get run over because you were too sucked in to your conversation.

Would you feel guilt? And do you think you should rightly feel guilt?

The same situation could be applied to your driving. Say this occurs, or you have some sort of lapse in focus while driving. An accident occurs, should you feel at least partially guilty for what has happened?