Dangerous situations

After conferring with the jurors, the judge pronounced Trường not guilty. The fault lay with the woman carrying the child on the motorbike, but since both mother and child had died, the court did not pursue responsibility any further. On the other side the husband's screams rang out: he killed my wife and child, why not sentence him to death... The security staff came and advised him that if he was dissatisfied with the court's judgment he could file an appeal to a higher court, but he must not cause disorder in the solemn courtroom or he would be arrested.
Friends helped Trường out of the court because he had lost heart and could not walk on his own. Trường mumbled thanks to the court for declaring him not guilty, but tears streamed down his face and he kept weeping. Friends and family helped Trường sit down on a stone bench in the yard and comforted him:

• It's not your fault. She rode her motorbike carelessly across the road. The court was very fair too: whoever is at fault is at fault.
  Trường said, crying:
• The image of mother and child being hit by my vehicle, thrown off and falling on the road, blood pouring out, thrashing about and then lying still a moment later, will haunt me all my life, hic hic...
• Many people cross the road recklessly, as if forcing other vehicles to stop and let them through. They don't realise that crossing recklessly, thinking they can force other vehicles to brake to give way to them, puts them in a very dangerous situation. Without noticing, they put their lives under another person's brake pedal: if the other can brake, they live; if the other cannot brake in time, they die. They think they are pushing others, not realising they have put their lives under others' brake pedals.
  Another friend added:
• You have to understand that crossing the road means losing the right of way. Traffic law always gives priority to vehicles going straight on steadily. Turning right, turning left, crossing the road, stopping in the middle of the road... all lose the right of way. If an incident occurs, the fault lies with the person who lost the right of way by no longer going straight on steadily. This woman was very reckless, carrying a small child and crossing the road blindly, without even a helmet for the child. She crossed quickly and got past the lorry, but that lorry blocked your view, so when she emerged from behind the lorry your vehicle was upon her and hit her. The camera at the corner recorded it very clearly.
  Trường kept on crying.... 🏎️

Very many people put themselves in dangerous situations in life. The consequences afterwards are long and unpleasant for themselves, and also affect the peaceful life of the community. A girl agrees to let a stranger give her a lift. An old lady believes the "electricity company staff" and opens the door to let them in. A tourist agrees to try a waterfall-crossing game even though the slope is slippery, so that one slip sends them sliding down into the valley where the body is hard to find.
A driver overtakes and slips into the gap between two tractor-trailers and may be crushed flat when the two vehicles squeeze together. In the rain someone climbs onto the roof to fix a snagged electric wire; if lightning doesn't kill them, current leakage will. Someone lights a roaring fire and forgets that flammable cloth is just above...

Our own safety is also the happiness of those who love us, so even if we are not selfish about ourselves, we must keep ourselves safe for the sake of our loved ones. To think this way is altruistic ethics. Do not recklessly and heedlessly put yourself in dangerous situations and so wrong your family and community. As for what counts as a dangerous situation to avoid, each person has their own experience (sometimes after gaining experience one has also passed away), or their own intelligence; there is as yet no specialised curriculum to teach it.

When we are careful enough not to put ourselves in dangerous situations, over time we will "attain the Way" of this carefulness, and may see other people's dangerous situations and steer them clear. For example, we drive very carefully, never break the law, never put ourselves in a dangerous situation, but we can also anticipate that other people will drive recklessly, and we will be doubly careful. Seeing a side road, we will watch out for someone speeding blindly, chased by a ghost or a biting dog, shooting out of the alley. We will guard against that by keeping a suitable speed or distance.
Or seeing a small child let go of the mother's hand in a crowded supermarket, we must think at once of the case where the mother, busy shopping, forgets her child, the child wanders a little and loses her, and then someone takes the child away. Worrying that far ahead, we have to stop what we are doing and keep an eye on the child for a while.
Or seeing a blind person sitting singing in the street to beg, we worry that some vehicle with a lost steering hand may leap onto the road and hit this blind person, so we look for something to serve as a signal to make vehicles notice from afar.
The ethical principle here is that we are careful on behalf of others as well. Being careful on behalf of others, avoiding disaster on behalf of everyone, we will have a mind that is serene and happy, without regret. And of course the law of cause and effect will bring many other good things too.