[dragonwriter]

> Severity of the injury does not change my evaluation of the matter seeing as how it was entirely self inflicted.

The jury in the case did not find the injury to be entirely self-inflicted.

People on online, tech-related forums, IME, tend very often to have a much more exclusive view of responsibility than either the law or society at large.

Which probably shouldn't be surprising; its easy to see how exclusive views of responsibility and crisp if/then/else logic can easily appeal to the same aesthetic sense.