amac
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I think if you were the one who lost the leg your perspective would be quite different too. Same if it'd been your loved one who was suffering like that. I understand what you mean in your posts about sympathizing with someone who is not in their right mind and is obviously in so much pain or so disturbed that they want to end it all, but it's absolutely insane to imply he had no other option. No matter how upset he was, he made a conscious decision when choosing that method of departure and as such he knew it would potentially cause harm to others, yet he proceeded. Why not aim for, oh, I dunno... a tree... a lightpost... a cliff?You are making the driver look like a criminal for not being able to think because he wanted his own life to end at the moment. That does not make him a criminal. Maybe he had no other way to end his life. Maybe he didn't want to hurt his family. Nobody had any idea what could have been going on with this man, it's sad the things people say on here, but if something like this were attempted by a family member/friend of yours, your whole perspective would change.
I'm sorry to hear this whole situation happened in the first place and that you're directly involved with those it affected, but I think why people are getting annoyed and pissed with you is because you're doing exactly what you're accusing us of -- viewing this from an extremely one-sided perspective. Why don't you have any sympathy for the others who were hurt by this? That vet isn't facing jail, sure, but Joseph DID hand him a big fat life sentence of disability and emotional damage. Why so flippant toward other's pain?
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