I was basing my initial assumptions on it having been a 50cc, and do agree that 100cc is probably too big for a seven year old.
My argument is still that the worst thing these parents did was allow the kid to ride at night. I’m going to have to agree to disagree with the rest of the anger directed towards the parents.
A better response would have been, ‘How fucking stupid and inept are you as parents.’ Parents that bad should be culled from the herd as letting zoo chimps raise the rugrats would produce better adults.
No, rural roads in England ain’t the same as the USA.
The particular road they were on was well-known as a shortcut between major cities - and bear in mind that in the south east of England, you’re never more than a few miles from an urban centre.
It was a twisty, windy, narrow, unlit road - with 50 acres of farmland there was no justification at all for allowing those kids on the road.
I understood the context but stand by my view. I think it’s beyond silly to suggest that just because a parent is negligent they don’t care about their kids. Read your post #36. Commonly, negligence arises because of a lack of thought about consequences, not a lack of concern about the consequences.
In the average traffic smash, does the idiot that caused it due to negligence genuinely not mind that he might crash, or simply not think he will crash? Either is possible but I’d suggest that the latter is much more common.
And when we are talking about killing one’s child through negligence, I think the number of instances of a parent who is negligent through not caring if their child is killed (as opposed to not realising that their child might well be killed) would be vanishingly small.
OK, but I was only trying to explain the what I perceived to be the meaning of the word ‘just’ in that context - which I thought you might have been reading too much into.