Reply To: A mitzvah for an aveira? or at someone else’s expense?

If he is so stringent with regard to shomer negiah, what was he doing on a bus in the first place? What if the bus had arrived at his stop while it was still crowded with women? Would he have pushed past them in order to get off or waited until the crowd thinned, by which time he would have to take another bus in the other direction?