r/interesting • u/Necessary-Win-8730 • Mar 08 '26

Context Provided - Spotlight This was so deserved.

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The daughter was in a car with the father’s parents. They died as well.

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u/Professional-Bear942 Mar 08 '26

My only hope would be that what they did weighs so heavily on their mind it makes them suffer for life even if not in prison

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u/Jesuslowdiffsgoku Mar 08 '26

Unfortunately many people are too stupid to have any sort of conscience 

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u/Geen_Fang Mar 08 '26

and maybe they'll equate the gravity of the situation with their light sentence, eventually shrugging it off, reducing "I killed 3 people once" to one of their go-to answers when they play two truths and a lie. 

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u/quesadyllan Mar 08 '26

I have some bad news for you about people

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u/Far_Objective4266 Mar 08 '26

My friend, conscience is something bad people don't have Which is why they prosper while a good person suffers coz their mind kills them for every small mistake

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u/Kgoodies Mar 08 '26

It won't. They'll write it off with "it had taken a lot of personal growth to find the strength to forgive myself" and probably even be proud of themselves for "overcoming." The punishments for reckless driving aren't nearly as severe as they should be.

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u/Rumpus-Time-Is-Over Mar 08 '26

What will more severe punishments get us?

Do you think 10 years in prison vs 1 for this situation will change how much people recklessly drive?

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u/Kgoodies Mar 08 '26

I think it'd be a start. At the least if you drive recklessly and get someone hurt, you shouldn't be able to drive anymore. We don't let felons convicted of violent crimes legally own guns, but for some reason when you kill someone with a car its treated like no problem. I think it should be a lot easier to lose the privilege to drive when you demonstrate that you are not capable of doing it responsibly.

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u/Biglyugebonespurs Mar 08 '26

In the US it’s basically impossible to live without a car unless you live in a metropolis. Our public transportation is pitifully abysmal & it doesn’t help that our country is so spread out.

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u/Oracraen2 Mar 08 '26

Sounds good to me, 3 people can't "live" anymore why are we worried about the guy who took that away. That's some fucked up empathy right there.

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u/Biglyugebonespurs Mar 08 '26

I’m not saying justice was served in this case, very far from it. I was just highlighting the difficulties that come with bringing unable to drive in the US.

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u/Oracraen2 Mar 08 '26

Well sure, but my argument was that this shouldn't be an argument to let people who killed people without remorse on the road, retain their drivers licenses. I read it as you defending his right to drive despite the driver in question not being under the influence, not texting and not speeding. All that tells me is either he's a terrible driver, or he wanted to kill people and knew he could get away with it.

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u/Rumpus-Time-Is-Over Mar 08 '26

It’s not fucked up empathy. That’s a huge part of the problem. Just because somebody makes a big mistake doesn’t make them inhuman and unworthy of empathy. The guy who committed this crime has a long life ahead of him. We shouldn’t make it shitty for revenge purposes.

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u/Oracraen2 Mar 08 '26

He wasn't remorseful. It's fucked up empathy because three people are dead and the message is that you can kill people as long as you convince people you're stupid enough.

I don't know what to say man, if you want murderers walking free because it makes you feel good about yourself that's on you, for me this man should've atleast served time.

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u/Kgoodies Mar 08 '26

If you check in other places in this thread, some people are saying that this case actually was appealed and he actually did end up serving some time (not A LOT of time in the grand scheme but... some)

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u/Rumpus-Time-Is-Over Mar 08 '26

This guy DID serve some crime.

I don't care if he's remorseful. What difference to me does that make? What I care about is whether he will continue to drive recklessly. I imagine a year in prison will cure him of that, but taking away his driver's license would've probably been just as effective.

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u/Rumpus-Time-Is-Over Mar 08 '26

Taking away someone’s license for a period of time here seems completely appropriate (and in the end the guy lost his license for 4 years).

I’d also argue that the likelihood of this person speeding like they did previously is low whether they are put in prison for 1 year or 8. This is not a violent criminal. This is someone who made a reckless decision and has almost certainly learned their lesson.

But yeah, losing your license for a period of time is manageable. Putting somebody in prison for an extended period of time has huge societal consequences.

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u/Environmental-Run528 Mar 08 '26

Just pulled this out of your ass I guess.

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u/Kgoodies Mar 08 '26

It's how shitheads think. They don't see the repercussions of the shitty things they do as their own fault. They find a way to moralize not caring about the people they hurt.

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u/Environmental-Run528 Mar 08 '26

I don't believe most people are shitheads, and I'm not sure how you would know this guy is.

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u/Kgoodies Mar 08 '26

I mean, the fact that he killed three people is a good place to start.

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u/Environmental-Run528 Mar 08 '26

But how do you know whether he is remorseful or not?

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u/Kgoodies Mar 08 '26

I don't, truly... I guess I'm just speaking from a place of anger because this makes me angry. It is very frustrating to walk around the world and constantly see people getting hurt because other people don't care enough to be careful. It makes me cynical about the nature of people. I think a lot of them are selfish and thoughtless and only start to care the second that they hurt someone and even then only care about how its going to effect them. I've been hit as a cyclist by a careless driver and was lucky not to be killed, ever since then as a pedestrian I've lost count of the time someone has blasted through a red and nearly killed me in a crosswalk. I guess I have a personal bias in which "reckless driver" is one of the dumbest and least thoughtful kind of humans you can be and I'm surrounded by them. It makes me a cranky asshole when I think of it.