The 'No Underpass' Dilemma

- weekendTODAY (3-4 May 2008)


Glen Yang is right.

I think rigidly inscribed guidelines (i.e. the law) shouldn't and couldn't be definitively used to assess human behavior, which is something that is still much of a mystery to us today.

What's this ? what's this ?
Is this her fault or mine?
The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha!
Not she, nor doth she tempt ; but it is I,
That lying by the violet in the sun,
Do, as the carrion does, not as the flower,
Corrupt with virtuous season.

- Angelo, in Measure for Measure (II,ii,162)

Different context, similar dilemma.

It is a universally accepted truth that the 'aggrievator' should be blamed.

But when the aggrieved is also the 'aggrievator', and vice versa...
the straight, plain, universal truth, being twisted and folded, then becomes a tangled palaver.

How are we now to judge and divide the blame?

So who do you think is more at fault?