[blml] By the pricking of my thumbs

[Ed Reppert]

On Mar 16, 2007, at 7:44 AM, Tim West-Meads wrote:

> I'm not absolving the player because he failed to do something hard.
> I'm absolving him because his opponent's infraction caused the  
> problem.

I'm tooling down the highway at the posted speed limit. A car  
approaches from behind me at high relative speed, parks himself about  
ten feet off my rear bumper, and starts honking his horn. I speed up.  
Am I to be absolved of the offense of speeding because he caused the  
problem? I don't think so.