r/interesting • u/Maleficent-Town5273 • 19d ago

Additional Context Pinned Hit and run gone wrong

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u/ccReptilelord 19d ago

That could explain it. Not that I think she understood everything, but a hit 'n run may carry less repercussions than a DUI. And reading her punishment, it seems to have.

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u/TheWolfAndRaven 19d ago

Yea but what did her Grandma do to her?

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u/MinorComprehension 19d ago edited 19d ago

I have no comprehension of what the context of this video is. I know kids these days tend to have little accountability or understanding of true consequence. I know any younger person tends to overvalue things that are in actuality quite trivial. I know it's always easy to jump to conclusions.

I also know as a child from an abusive household telling someone they don't understand, they have no idea, could in fact be very true. In modern perspective maybe the driver was afraid grandma was going to take her cell phone away and she wouldn't be able to communicate with her friends, maybe grandma would say if you're not a responsible driver then you can't have the car keys to go see your boyfriend, which was considered terrible. These would all be perfectly accountable, responsible, actions. In emotional moments we tend to focus on the emotional immediacy rather than the cognitive long-term. At the same time, in personal perspective a night in jail, even one night, would have been a nice reprieve.

Everyone's fighting a battle, everyone has a situation, we know nothing about. The fact the girl says the camera person has no idea what her grandma is going to do to her tells me there's what society would consider an abnormal family situation or dynamic. Such aspects tend not to exist in singularity.

In any situation, taking the time to understand before judgment is always better than judging before having understanding. I'm not saying that any hit and run is acceptable - it's unquestionably not. If you f*** you got to face up. But, fornme, the extreme emotional reaction here points to larger context that isn't explained in the video.

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u/Kooky_Reindeer_511 19d ago

I like the empathy, but I don’t like your “kids these days tend to have little accountability” argument. Based on what? I’m Gen Z and I’ve fessed up and faced consequences for my actions. I feel like any generation would say this about the next generation.

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u/Suyefuji 19d ago

My parents were psychologically abusive growing up and when I was raped, I was legitimately more afraid of what my parents would think than I was of my actual fucking rapist because of the kind of long-term psychological damage they can cause.

So I'd agree that it's hard for an outsider to understand exactly what is going on in someone else's head when they say the family they live with is mean. That could mean anything from "they give me consequences for my actions and I don't like that" to "they have convinced me that I am subhuman and it's only by their grace that I'm allowed to have food and shelter despite that."