Browsing a website about living in Thailand (well, why not) I came across this. I suppose it's logical.
"Foreigners who are involved in any type of road accident will often automatically be held responsible for the accident. This is based on the fact that as a foreigner your presence in Thailand was the cause of the accident; if you hadn’t been in Thailand there would have been no incident."
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I have read this before as well and like the "warped" logic of it.
But is it true!?
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It's a logic that can be applied in all sorts of ways:
Officer, "if you weren't going so fast you could have stopped when the other car pulled out"
Driver, "had I been going faster I would not have been there when the other car pulled out"
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Countries in the middle east have a similar attitude, although I don't think it's actually a law.
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>>Countries in the middle east have a similar attitude
Passenger in a taxi could be partly to blame for an accident as he told the driver to go there - Saudi Arabia early 70s!!
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>> >>Countries in the middle east have a similar attitude
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>> Passenger in a taxi could be partly to blame for an accident as he told
>> the driver to go there - Saudi Arabia early 70s!!
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Oh yes! I experienced many more examples of this type of thinking.
Threatened with jail after events there that I had no control over.
e.g. Due to UK strike action the plug got pulled on our comms link back to the UK.
" Fix it or else !!!!"
( circuit was immediately restored when strike ended)
Just no logic to their thinking and you dare not argue.
I was very difficult to hammer this situation into new members of our team .
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>> >>Countries in the middle east have a similar attitude
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>> Passenger in a taxi could be partly to blame for an accident as he told
>> the driver to go there - Saudi Arabia early 70s!!
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Our instructions were to travel with one small case , keep it in the taxi, agree the fare before starting the trip, have the correct fare on the seat and then in the case of an "accident" do a runner.
Fortunately I never needed todo it.
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>> Countries in the middle east have a similar attitude, although I don't think it's actually
>> a law.
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Yes. prime example is of women who report a rape get charged themselves with "having sex outside marriage". Plenty of real evidence to back up this claim - just search reported examples on the interweb.
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>> Yes. prime example is of women who report a rape get charged themselves with "having
>> sex outside marriage". Plenty of real evidence to back up this claim - just search
>> reported examples on the interweb.
I have no doubt whatever that this happens. Similar attitudes to rape can also be found elsewhere; not unique to Islamic theocracies.
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>> found elsewhere; not unique to Islamic theocracies.
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Keep religion out of it.
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Doesn't this also apply to at least some of the middle eastern states ?
Why don't we apply the same (obviously acceptable) rule ?
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A certain logic - zippy
