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by mauvehaus 1207 days ago
How about considering the danger that starting that fire and walking away from it stands to expose other people to? Maybe we look at things differently, but saving my own life is not worth risking the lives of a bunch of firefighters or regular folks.

Particularly not if I'm almost wholly to blame for being at risk because of my own spectacular level of stupidity.

The monetary cost of a mere $300,000 is a very poor proxy for putting the risk back on the shoulders of the person it rightly belongs on.

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> How about considering the danger that starting that fire and walking away from it stands to expose other people to?

When you are dying, I doubt that should matter.