Our discussion of the Dallas pedestrian killing on a local forum turned into this same argument. It's because we all just want to assign blame. The word "fault" has been said a lot more times in this thread than "careful".

Maybe it's just me, but I try my very best on an MUP not to hit anyone (or any animal, for that matter), no matter how badly they behave. Just being able to blame it on them afterwards isn't good enough for me.