Guest that's the reality, I was talking hypothetically
I want to tell everyone something that happened yesterday, well 2 things actually but they are related in my mind anyway
My daughter came in after being out with her friends, we are having serious fog problems here, the lad who as driving them wasn't drinking and was driving really slowly, but he misjudged and they had a crash
She came in really upset that I was going to go mad at her friend, i told her it was okay, it's only a bit of metal and as long as they are all okay it didn't matter
Why? Why didn't I tell the lad he shouldn't have risked going out in that weather, puting my daughter in danger ...because
An hour earlier my 13 yo got a phone call, it was a friend of his to tell him another friend of theirs had been killed in a high speed car crash, a 16 yo's life had been taken 2 days before Xmas (any day is bad enough) because he stole a car that he wasn't able to drive (you cannot drive here until you are 17)
Now taking the two different crashes, the lad who crashed and everyone was okay made a bad judgement, no one got hurt but it could have been different, does that make him wrong? Even though he didn't mean it
The lad who stole the car, knew he was doing wrong, he knew he had stolen the car, he knew he was running from the law, he knew he wasn't supposed to be driving, did he deserve to die for it? Can we say too bad, it's his own fault because he knew it was wrong?