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If I hit you with a wrench, saying "the wrench hit you" is clearly awkward and obscuring what matters.
by Zigurd 5y ago
If I hit you with a wrench, saying "the wrench hit you" is clearly awkward and obscuring what matters.
- MauranKilom 5y agoI don't see the analogy. "I hit you with a wrench" by and large implies intent. A pedestrian being hit by a car is very rarely an intentional event. Further, you tend to have control over the wrench in this scenario (and if I was hit by a wrench because you e.g. dropped it unintentionally, "the wrench hit me" is reasonable), whereas insufficient control over the car is usually the problem in a crash.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y agoThat’s nearly the point. It’s not that it implies intent, but that it implies agency.