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katierosefun · 2 years ago

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studying torts and reviewing proximate cause and picturing what the Reasonable Person might be . . . gotta spice my life up a little, so i’m picturing. mostly spock. maybe spock? maybe obi-wan? being that Odious Reasonable Person

#caroline talks #[squints at both spock and obi-wan] not that they're always totally reasonable #but they're more reasonable than i am!#because like. for example #i think i do tend to let my imagination run wild so i'm not the best person to test this against #but like. for example. a hypothetical might be #'well could an airline have foreseen that as a consequence of their not filling the gas tanks of a plane #that the plane might have to make an emergency landing on an island with an active volcano?'#and. and my instinct is to go 'well yeah actually they should have foreseen that because you could also foresee #that as a consequence of not filling the gas tanks of a plane they might wind up making a landing in the water and what if there are #dangerous animals in the water and then everyone dies yeah i think that's reasonably foreseeable'#and then i realize a second later that i sound. a little more like bones.#whereas a spock might just calmly say something like 'the chance of that happening is actually [spits dramatically low number]'#'it would be much more likely for an airplane to make an emergency landing at a tarmac given the technologies of the early 21st century'#or like. let's say that someone slips and falls because an employee didn't put up a 'WET FLOOR' sign #'would it be reasonably foreseeable for that person to be stabbed on the way to the hospital and therefore would the employee be liable?'#and my little rat brain goes 'well it depends on the neighborhood. some neighborhoods are p rough and so i can imagine that--'#and then i need to be interrupted by spock going 'it is statistically unlikely that someone would be stabbed on the way to the hospital'#and. and that's where my head's at.

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