Originally Posted by
Koyote
I'll retract my comment if you explain how a person can "accidentally" stab another person.
Sure. You break into someone's house to steel food expecting to be confronted by no one. Instead, you wind up being confronted by someone. In self defense, or simply to avoid being caught in the future, you stab. This is an "accident" in the sense that it is an outcome that you didn't anticipate and did not want to manifest. Whether or not you
should have anticipated the outcome is, of course, another matter.
Perhaps you would have been more comfortable with the phrase "unintended consequence"?
Regardless, such a minor semantic quibble hardly seems sufficient justification to insult me by suggesting that I'm a blowhard with nothing to say worth hearing.
Keep your retraction, I've no need of it.