(January 5, 2016 at 6:05 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote:(January 5, 2016 at 6:01 pm)*Deidre* Wrote: Yea, that's true. I don't like that word ''impaired'' though to define this. That's just me and my semantics.
The thing is when I read stories like this, this woman knew the consequences, and no...she didn't 'set out' to kill anyone, but to drive your car under the influence of alcohol, it shows a gross lack of concern for others, if nothing else. But, in a sense that could be how addicted she may be to alcohol. It's a sad story for her, too, to have to live with what she's done.
Let's say she wasn't that addicted to it, but simply made a bad decision. Now instead of blaming her for it, did you give some thought as to maybe what drove her to ultimately make that decision at that moment in her life? Do you know about all of the circumstances that led up to it? If you did know about them, can you imagine you would still want to blame her? What would you do if you were her, with all the same experiences, genes, and so on? Could you still blame her then?
There are always reasons behind bad decisions. I have empathy for we are all capable of making bad decisions, but we still have to face the consequences of those bad decisions.
