Re: Last minute lane changers

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From: Chuck Tomlinson
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 00:00

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c.c.eiftj@06.usenet.us.com (Rahul Dhesi) wrote:
>tomlinsc@ix.netcom.com (Chuck Tomlinson) writes:
>
>>>Blame is not a zero-sum game. 
>
>>Who said it was?  Not me.
>
>When you talk about sharing responsibilty, you are assuming a zero-sum
>game.  If each driver is separately responsible, the concept of
>sharing is meaningless.

IMHO, if more than one person contributes to (i.e., is, to some 
degree, responsible for) a crash, then those people *share* 
responsibility for the crash.  That is all I meant.  Perhaps if I 
had said that the multiple parties are "jointly responsible" for the 
crash, the little buzzers in your head would've remained silent.

In YOUR mind, "sharing responsibility" necessarily means that the 
total of the "responsibility percentages" must add up to 100%.  
Whether that's true or not, I couldn't care less, because it has no 
significant implications for any part of the previous discussion.

>>Since you had nothing to say about my distinction between inanimate 
>>obstructions and bad drivers who make themselves obstructions, I'll 
>>assume that you have no logical counterargument.     
>
>I didn't find a logcial argument that needed to be countered.

Of course not...  ROTFL!
--
Chuck Tomlinson

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From: tomlinsc@ix.netcom.com (Chuck Tomlinson)
Subject: Re: Last minute lane changers
Date: 1998/07/20
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