Comment by socalgal2
3 hours ago
False. If you jump in front of a car who has the right of way and is not speeding it's not the driver's fault. The victum in this case is the driver who has done nothing wrong. The perp is the person who broke the law and faces the consequences.
The victim is the one who's injured or dead.
Ahhh yes, you're missing that this requires the person to have an excuse for their recklessness. E.g. being a child, being mentally impaired in a way that puts them on equal footing with a child in situations like that. But if someone does so with the mental capacity to know they shouldn't and the ability to not be impulsive, neither beating the train by driving around the barriers, driving onto a crossing without there being space on the other side to fit one's vehicle even if the front of the queue remains stopped, nor running across an intersection without looking , are situations where the driver (train/car) who gets PTSD (and in the case of the train, might also kill several innocent bystanders with the flying car) is less of a victim than the person who thought to only gamble their own life while misjudging the odds.