The design of cities and their traffic infrastructure is very well researched. We know how to make better cities that kill a lot less people, but have failed to do so for decades. Seems pretty intentional to me or at least willfully ignorant/acceptant.

Also the people in the first scene arent killing the person themselves directly, but their decisions as a culture are. Same applies to the bottom one.

It's a systemic problem tolerated by society as the cost of society... even though it's not intractable, or even unthinkable.

The fault doesn't lie with the motorist like it lies with the wielder of the sacrificial knife, sure; but in both cases the system is set up to kill kids, and it's society as a whole that needs to adapt to fix the problem.

We keep letting it happen, despite knowing exactly what could be done to stop it. The meme is about excuses made in order to not change things at the wider level, not the murderous intent or lack thereof of whoever ends up doing this all too frequent ritual.

I think a lot of people need to go back to elementary school for remedial lessons on metaphor.

I see often see two errors. One, this one, where two things are not alike in all ways and thus they are not alike at all. The other one, where two things are alike in one way and thus they are alike in all ways.