vonhosen wrote:Yes we respond to emergencies, but we won't always be able to help because there are times that we consider the risk is too great to us.
At what point was it suggested that you did? Please point it out as the comments you are making appear wholly irreleavnt to JB's point.
vonhosen wrote:Of course I don't expect a fisherman to attend a burglary in progress, but then the last time I looked at any jobs risk table, his job was more than 6 times riskier than mine, so it's a moot point saying he isn't expected to take any risks associated with my job.
That last sentence is incoherent. A fisherman may take risks in the course of his employment and those risks may be greater than those you take in your employment but that is another irrelevant point.
On his day off, should he be sitting at a red light when an emergency vehicle turns up and wants to get past, any risks to his own life by going through the red light will not be part of the risks associated with his employment. He will not be paid to take that risk.
Employment = risks = paid for.
MOP going through red light = risk = not paid for.
Emergency vehicle driver going through red light = risk = paid for
This isn't a difficult concept to understand so maybe you're being obtuse?
OILY PAWS wrote:MGF wrote: Is this starting to sink in?
Nope............post what you like............where you like, I know my job, I wouldn't dream of preaching to you about your chosen employment path......because I don't do it day in day out, I know what is required of me, and what does happen, phrasing like that does nothing to promote reasonable discussion.........what little credibility you had..........is no more
Has that Sunk in?
Firstly, your opinion of my credibility is neither here or there. What we think of each other is irrelevant. Let's go back to the beginning and quote what was actually written.
OILY PAWS wrote:jbsportstech wrote:Red Herring wrote:jbsportstech wrote:Its seems crazy to risk your life for a blue light driver to me.
Fortunately they are quite prepared to risk theirs for yours, or your families, or anybody else for that matter.
Yes but they are trained and paid to do so.
Trained.......yes...........paid to risk their life......
Nope
Seems to me JB is merely stating that a member of the public should not put his life at risk by going through a red light and is not convinced by your response that the driver of an emergency vehicle is, and I quote
'Quite prepared to risk theirs for yours...'. The difference he says is that they are 'trained and paid to do so'.
You have then purported to establish that drivers of emergency vehicles, somehow manage to cease being in the pay and under the control of their employers, when they risk their lives help others.
It is nonsense to claim that the risk to life associated with one's duties of employment are not paid for.
At no point whatsoever has the
amount of risk been clarified. I would suggest the risk associated with going through a red light is quite small). It appears Von and OP have made a presumption that there is a suggestion that the risk is unlimited or determined by public opinion. That has certainly not been the case here.