Compassionate Humanist Imagines Person They Just Killed In Hit-And-Run Didn't Vote, Clears Conscience
by Picadora Bransen
Barreling down the highway in the middle of the night, an unidentified local woman fled the pedestrian she had just hit.
I killed someone. Someone who matters just as much as I do.
As the her psyche began to spiderweb under the enormity of this fact, her mind raced for any possible escape.
Suddenly, she remembered a post she had read online: "People who vote matter very little. People who don't vote don't matter at all."
What if they didn't vote? she grasped the fleeting thought like a child gripping an umbrella, imagining it will slow their fall as they leap from the top of a tall building.
I don't have to care about them. If anything, it's their fault. Maybe if they voted they wouldn't have wound up like this. Only a nonvoter would be irresponsible enough to be out walking alone this late.
Reflexively flipping on her turn signal, her car exited off the highway. Abandoning the fear and panic just as she had abandoned her unfortunate victim on the side of the road.
They don't matter at all.