It’s called The Law Of Unintended Consequences. This woman has been conditioned by her society to save baby ducks. I’m sure she thought she was performing a caring and thoughtful act by rescuing ducklings. The problem is that she obeyed her conditioning instead of thinking. No rational person parks in the left lane of a freeway at night while their car still works. It’s not something other motorists would expect or prepare for. She could have pulled her car off to the right hand shoulder of the road and put on her flashers. Then, she could have run out onto the freeway to rescue the ducklings and been hit and killed by a semi.
This whole story is just a small example of what happens with liberals every day.
“Gosh, I’m sorry my actions caused those people to needlessly die, but I felt like I was doing something really good and important.”
I think you have a point about society conditioning us to behave this way. You can actually get arrested on a felony for NOT stopping for ducks. You can pretty much guarantee that your mugshot will be on the front pages of all the papers as public enemy #1 if you ran over ducklings - even if you felt you might be endangering others behind you by hitting the brakes.
I almost rear-ended somebody on a back road a few years back because he stopped for a turtle crossing the road. I was coming around a curve and barely had time to stop as his car was in the middle of the road with the flashers on. He was one of those college professor types with the beard and glasses and he thought he was performing a great humanitarian service by picking up the turtle and carrying it across the road to the other side. Even though I almost slammed into his BMW and put myself in the hospital or worse (I've learned to just straddle the turtles and drive over them harmlessly).
I am not happy to see this woman go to jail, despite what happened. Maybe having her driver's license taken away for life would have been more appropriate.