Sam, you neglected to mention hitchhiking. Most people don’t hitchhike. In fact, I think an important lesson to learn from that tragedy is not to hitchhike, but it wasn’t, rightfully, the focus. Plenty of people unfortunately don’t have smoke detectors, and use hot plates. I’m sure they were unaware that the wiring was faulty (if it indeed was). Fire safety is an important lesson to take from this tragedy, but not at the expense of cheshbon hanefesh.
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