• blarghly@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Explain why the baby deserves to die because of their negligent parent.

    Regardless of who we assign blame to, the important part is that if a train flips a car off its tracks, a baby in that car could die. So if we prioritize baby non-death, we can say that the train shouldnt be violently flipping cars off its tracks

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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      4 days ago

      I didn’t say they deserve to die. I only said their death is the parent’s responsibility for leaving them in a car parked on the tracks.

      If a parent leaves a baby in the woods, no one would be arguing about “maybe bears shouldn’t eat babies!” They would be saying “Maybe you shouldn’t leave your baby unattended in the woods!”

      Leave a baby in the woods, it dies. Leave a baby on the train tracks, it dies. In both cases, it’s the negligent parent’s fault. Not the bear’s or the train’s.

        • BiteSizedZeitGeist@lemmy.world
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          4 days ago

          I like this “the street car operator will make a baby die if they have to push a blocking car out of the way” strawman you have here