Influencer Jack Doherty, 20, appeared to be distracted on his phone before crashing his US$200,000 car while driving and live-streaming in heavy rain in Miami.
No, a normal person would hope that a shithead who is endangering the lives of the public, and who will eventually kill someone if they aren’t stopped, would have learned a lesson.
Walking away unscathed, and continuing to stream for hearts and likes, while your friend is bleeding from the head, does not impart that lesson upon them.
I didn’t say I wish they were dead, I said it’s unfortunate they weren’t hurt, because that might have saved someone else’s life in the future.
Okay, admittedly ‘a normal person’ is a quite low bar. A reasonable, ethical person then.
They totaled a several-hundred-thousand-dollar car in front of a million people, and the insurance won’t cover it because they were texting. If he’s capable of learning from mistakes, I’m sure he has.
What? You think his parents mortgaged their house for that car? Or that he paid for it, and his lifestyle, entirely from his streaming earnings? lol no.
If he hit a triple to get there, you might have a point. But he was born on third base, and something tells me his parents aren’t going to send him back to first.
But maybe you’re right, maybe we’re in the dawn of a new day where rich kids crashing expensive cars, and walking away unharmed, will actually make them better people and help them grow…
What a time to be alive when suggesting we shouldn’t wish physical harm on an idiot teenager / young adult who we’ve all been at one point, is met with such fierce opposition.
No, it’s not wishing harm, it’s wishing to prevent future harm to innocent bystanders.
He wasn’t doing donuts in the parking lot, or some other relatively isolated teenage idiocy.
He was engaging in behavior that could have easily killed an entire family who just happened to be on the road with him. Considering he comes from wealth, and walked away unscathed, I doubt any lesson was learned, because that’s what history shows us.
Because of that, the odds are high that this won’t be the last time he takes the lives of innocent bystanders into his hands for hearts and likes.
I’m sure when we read the article in 6 months how he mowed down a mother and three kids while live streaming, you will still feel the same way.
I don’t know the statistics, but I wouldn’t be surprised if more than 99% of drivers have, at some point, looked at their phone or engaged in some other distracting behavior while driving. It almost never leads to an accident. What’s the difference then between someone who ends up killing someone and someone who doesn’t? Bad luck - that’s the difference. I’m not going to pretend that this unlucky person is somehow morally exceptionally reprehensible, knowing that it could just as easily have been me. If you’re in the tiny minority who has, from day one, put 100% of your focus and attention into driving every single time you get behind the wheel without exception, I applaud you. But understand that this is extremely rare. That’s why I see it for what it is - an unlucky accident and I’m glad no one got seriously injured.
Imagine being so annoyed by someone you have zero obligation to pay attention to that you wish them physical harm.
You mean someone who’s endangering the lives of the public for views…?
Someone whose actions could have easily killed someone… for likes and hearts…?
For the record, I’m not annoyed by them, I detest them. Not for their job, but because of their actions, you know, like a normal person would.
Normal person would be glad no-one got hurt rather than wishing someone did.
No, a normal person would hope that a shithead who is endangering the lives of the public, and who will eventually kill someone if they aren’t stopped, would have learned a lesson.
Walking away unscathed, and continuing to stream for hearts and likes, while your friend is bleeding from the head, does not impart that lesson upon them.
I didn’t say I wish they were dead, I said it’s unfortunate they weren’t hurt, because that might have saved someone else’s life in the future.
Okay, admittedly ‘a normal person’ is a quite low bar. A reasonable, ethical person then.
They totaled a several-hundred-thousand-dollar car in front of a million people, and the insurance won’t cover it because they were texting. If he’s capable of learning from mistakes, I’m sure he has.
What? You think his parents mortgaged their house for that car? Or that he paid for it, and his lifestyle, entirely from his streaming earnings? lol no.
If he hit a triple to get there, you might have a point. But he was born on third base, and something tells me his parents aren’t going to send him back to first.
But maybe you’re right, maybe we’re in the dawn of a new day where rich kids crashing expensive cars, and walking away unharmed, will actually make them better people and help them grow…
What a time to be alive when suggesting we shouldn’t wish physical harm on an idiot teenager / young adult who we’ve all been at one point, is met with such fierce opposition.
How unreasonable of me.
No, it’s not wishing harm, it’s wishing to prevent future harm to innocent bystanders.
He wasn’t doing donuts in the parking lot, or some other relatively isolated teenage idiocy.
He was engaging in behavior that could have easily killed an entire family who just happened to be on the road with him. Considering he comes from wealth, and walked away unscathed, I doubt any lesson was learned, because that’s what history shows us.
Because of that, the odds are high that this won’t be the last time he takes the lives of innocent bystanders into his hands for hearts and likes.
I’m sure when we read the article in 6 months how he mowed down a mother and three kids while live streaming, you will still feel the same way.
I don’t know the statistics, but I wouldn’t be surprised if more than 99% of drivers have, at some point, looked at their phone or engaged in some other distracting behavior while driving. It almost never leads to an accident. What’s the difference then between someone who ends up killing someone and someone who doesn’t? Bad luck - that’s the difference. I’m not going to pretend that this unlucky person is somehow morally exceptionally reprehensible, knowing that it could just as easily have been me. If you’re in the tiny minority who has, from day one, put 100% of your focus and attention into driving every single time you get behind the wheel without exception, I applaud you. But understand that this is extremely rare. That’s why I see it for what it is - an unlucky accident and I’m glad no one got seriously injured.