Don’t run in traffic: Over the weekend, the sports people could not stop talking about race car driver Tony Stewart driving over another driver on a dirt track. The dead driver, wearing a black suit, got out of his wrecked car and ran onto the track. He made every effort to get in the way of Tony Stewart, because the guy thought Stewart intentionally caused him to wreck. The lighting at the track looks pretty bad. Maybe Stewart should have seen him. Maybe he should have done something different. Who knows.

As citizens, we have a responsibility to conduct ourselves so as not to cause harm to others. It is a basic responsibility on all people everywhere. Otherwise, you cannot have human settlement. Race car drivers, for instance, have to try and avoid hitting other drivers or wrecking their cars. That responsibility stops where your responsibility to you begins. You are in charge of you. Your life means more to you than anyone else so you get the primary duty of guarding it.

That means when you run into traffic and try to jump in front of speeding cars, you own the consequences. Sure, the other guys have to take reasonable measures to avoid you, but if they don’t it is still on you. It is sad that a young man is dead and it is sad that the other man will now have to carry that with him. That’s all on the dead guy. The obvious advice here is simple. If you don’t want to be run over by Tony Stewart, don’t run in front of his car on the race track.

Don’t fight with the cops: Look, the cops are out of control. We all know that. In the land of the free, there are close to 50,000 SWAT raids every year. Fewer than ten percent involve an armed stand-off or kidnapping. We have foolishly turned the local police force into a paramilitary force. The difference is that the local yokels are rarely qualified to guard a lamppost, much less handle mil-spec hardware in urban areas.

That does not mean you fight the cops. When you do that, they may shoot you. When confronted by an armed retard with a sour attitude, you are wise to do as you are told and let the lawyers figure it out. Most cops are decent enough people and just want to get home to their families. Some are nuts and others are just stupid. You can’t know any of this at the time of contact. Don’t fight the cops.

Don’t start riots: Black people have a lot of unsolvable problems, because blacks are not equipped to live in white societies. African used to be called the white man’s graveyard, because whites are not built for Africa. This reality is what it is, but that does not mean you cannot have some sympathy for blacks. There are some things society can do to make things a bit easier for them.

The thing is, when you riot and burn down your neighborhoods, people start to think maybe the bad guys are right. When oleaginous scumbags like Benjamin Crump is hired to represent the rioters, people are even less inclined to sympathize. The family of the victim probably has a legitimate claim and they should get representation. There are plenty of local lawyers looking for work. People will be more inclined to listen if you avoid hiring a human hemorrhoid as your mouthpiece.