""I see the children, and ache for their pain."
It's just words, isn't it! "

No Ake - its the vulnerable man in the middle of the fortress.

Excuse my arrogance, but in my view the post to which you refer is a model example.

The vulnerable man is sitting safe and in the dark surrounded by an impenetrable wall of denial on the inside, and blame on the outside.

If the drunk driver were about to drive over a cliff then the analogy would be fair, but that isn't how things are.

The drunk driver is driving towards a well equipped technologically advanced state, which, rather than try and help the children, has chosen to kill the driver and accept the loss of the children as collateral damage.