"jeff" wrote in message
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i'm not sure i catch the logic of your questions given the context of the
statements preceding it. but, i'll play anyway...

i've never wondered how it happened that someone's car stopped because it
ran out of fuel. usually, i think it occurred because the driver didn't
notice they were out of gas. they were inattentive to the gas gauge, they
didn't focus on it, whatever. so, what the hell does that mean about the
person? doesn't mean much to me. doesn't mean they are stupid...doesn't
mean they lack common sense. what does it mean to you? they were
negligent? ok...so what. negligence doesn't equal stupid. lots of
negligent things happen everyday that are neither actionable nor a sign of
stupidity. brilliant people are negligent on occasion. hell, look at our
good friend frank reid for example g.

and...as for your query...well, i reckon i'd feel even a simpleton like me
ought to recognize the distinction. with the car, i'd chuckle (and have
done so about numerous similar uneventful, non-injurious, absent-minded
events; with the plane, i'm sure i'd be among the loudest of the shrieking
passengers who felt that falling like a brick toward the earth presented a
significantly more precarious and problematic concern than would rolling
to a comic stop in harmony with gravity.

hth

jeff

And then there's the dumbass who leaves his lights on all day, during a 12
hour fishin' excursion, and has to have his fishin' buddy give him a jump in
the rain and fog!

Thank goodness, no errant fuelless planes fell out of the sky on us, while
you regenerated my battery!

Op --a mindless, negligently stupid and foolish human--