Originally Posted by analog

Blame and denigrate him? I did no such thing. I said I don't understand why a person would do that. That's me saying I don't understand why a person would do that, not "he's a dumbass and deserved to die" like you make it sound that I said.

I also listed reasons why I don't understand it- and they're not unusual reasons. Something like not having seen or known of anything for any distance in either direction DOES, in fact, make it difficult to understand why he'd make the choice to blindly advance into the cold wearing normal street clothes- writing that choice off as "seeking help to save his family" doesn't cut it, nor does it make it "not hard to understand". People do lots of what we consider to be stupid things (again, I'm not saying what he did was stupid, I just don't agree with the motivation behind it) in the name of "protecting loved ones", and this does not give a person immunity from future scrutiny of their actions.

I'm glad he felt compelled to save his family, and I do find it heroic that he got so far and pushed so hard to do it- but I don't agree that the way he chose to save his family was to leave the car when he had no knowledge of anything being within any distance, and that they would lose his body heat.