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Kyuubi4269 posted...

It's not courageous to fix your mistakes,

Courage is a matter of personal feelings and thought processes. She wasn't thinking about fixing her mistake (since that'd be a really weird thing to think about in such a situation), she was thinking about protecting her kid. That's courageous, however badly you want to rationalize it otherwise from the comfort of your computer chair and with the benefit of hindsight.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Everybody has a moral obligation to risk their lives to fix a problem they made that threatens other people's lives.

That really depends on the scale of the threat and how efficient risking their life will be. If it's a matter of just one other life and there's a solid chance that sacrificing herself wouldn't actually save the kid, giving her life is not only not a moral obligation, it's not even a good idea. The optimal course of action would actually have been to lock the dog in with the kid and seek outside help: Same number of dead people, minimal risk of the dog attacking anyone else and fewer injured people overall. She'd likely end up jailed for that, of course, so you've got that consequence for screwing up you wanted, and poor dad's only left with one traumatized kid to raise on his own instead of two.

Sacrificial justice rarely helps anyone. If the only way to solve the problem entails risking her life, then sure, risk her life to get the problem solved, but you seem to be approaching this with the mentality of "she deserved to die for this mistake," and that's just silly and rarely reflects the optimal solution.