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A negligent driver who forgets to check his brakes seems to face greater opprobrium if – unluckily – a child runs out in front of him.
Thomson represents a number of those who employ this strategy when she asks, "Well do we regard Bert [a negligent driver who causes a death] with an indignation that would be out of place in respect to Carol [an equally negligent driver who does not]?
Under some conditions, however, it is also free to file its own lawsuit to recover the medical outlays directly from the negligent driver (who in some circumstances might even wind up covering the same medical bills twice).
A variant of this strategy employs the idea that one can justify differential treatment of, say, the negligent driver who hits a child and one who does not, even if both are equally morally blameworthy.
For example, Henning Jensen (1984) argues that while both are equally culpable, there are consequentialist reasons for not subjecting the first negligent driver to the same degree of blame behavior.
On the simplest level, it happened because a criminally negligent driver pushed too hard and crashed.
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To show liability, you must show that the other driver was "negligent," which means the other driver was careless.
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