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Originally Posted by manta49
With all due respect you are showing your naivety if you think you can make rules and expect people to follow them. In your world their would be no accidents because there are rules and of course everyone will follow them.
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But we make rules and expect people to follow them all the time.
Are you old enough to drive a car? Automobiles typically range in weight from about 2,000 pounds (one ton) to upwards of 4,000 pounds (two tons). They travel at speeds of 60 to 80 miles per hour (100 to 130 km/hr) in comparatively close proximity to one another. Except on limited access highways, it's quite common for two such vehicles to be approaching one another nearly head-on at a combined rate of speed of perhaps 200 km/hr.
A collision would be devastating. What (mostly) prevents collisions? A stripe painted down the center of the pavement, and a
rule that says "Stay on your side of the stripe." Every driver (and every passenger, for that matter) expects other drivers to comply with that rule, and they literally put their lives in the hands of every other driver on the road. Am I being excessively naive to expect other drivers to follow the rules of the road?
If we didn't expect other drivers to follow the rules of the road, we would all be walking ... or cowering in our flats. Dead is dead. Dying as a result of a head-on collision is no less dead than dying of a negligent firearm discharge.