Quoting%20commentary for Bava Kamma 18:18

חומר בשור מבבור שהשור משלם את הכופר וחייב בשלשים של עבד נגמר דינו אסור בהנאה ודרכו לילך ולהזיק מה שאין כן בבור חומר בבור מבשור שהבור תחילת עשייתו לנזק ומועד מתחילתו מה שאין כן בשור

a flame the law of exemption applies, the ox here would likewise be loose and the pit uncovered; but why should we make a difference between the one and the other? — There, in the case of the fire, it is the handling of the deaf-mute that causes the damage, whereas here, in the case of the ox and the pit, it is not the handling of the deaf-mute that causes the damage. Our Rabbis taught: There is an excess in [the liability for] Ox over [that for] Pit, and there is [on the other hand] an excess in [the liability for] Pit over [that for] Ox. The excess in [the liability for] Ox over [that for] Pit is that Ox involves payment of <i>kofer</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Ex. XXI, 29-30; v. Glos. ');">¹²</span> and the liability of thirty [<i>shekels</i>] for the killing of a slave;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. XXI, 32. ');">¹³</span> when judgment [for manslaughter] is entered [against Ox] it becomes vitiated for any use,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. infra p. 255. ');">¹⁴</span> and it is in its habit to move about and do damage, whereas all this is not so in the case of Pit. The excess in [the liability for] Pit over [that for] Ox is that Pit is from its very inception a source of injury and is <i>Mu'ad</i> ab initio which is not so in the case of Ox.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra p. 3, nn. 6-7. ');">¹⁵</span>

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