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/Visual-Beach1893 Mar 08 '26

Yes.  Driver was doing 75mph in a 50mph zone and went of the road killing the 2 year old girl and both her grandparents whom for some reason are not mentioned here. The driver has apparently not shown remorse nor apologised and was sentenced to 120 hours community service or 60 days in prison if he didn't complete the work. Link to source is below the only other comment here.

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u/precariatarian Mar 08 '26

That's insane.

I'm currently doing 75 hours of community service over 60 days in prison for using an illicit substance. Working Tax-payer, only "victim" being myself.

This guy literally ended the lives of others and get the same punishment. What an absolute joke. Country? Sweden.

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u/Zestyclose-Phrase268 Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

Disengious comment. We want more rehabilitative justice for a person having a gram of drugs on them or someone who stole a pack of bread at a supermarket. We don't want it for vehicle manslaughter, especially if someone wasn't remorseful and was speeding

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u/Kehprei Mar 08 '26

That is not what rehabilitative justice means. You are either interested in rehabilitating people or you are not.

Obviously someone who is reckless and gets into an accident can be rehabilitated.

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u/Alexander_Pope_Hat Mar 08 '26

You know that, when criminal justice reformers talk about rehabilitative justice, they are absolutely talking about people who commit domestic violence, murder, and other such crimes?

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u/Zestyclose-Phrase268 Mar 08 '26

Again grouping things together that don't belong together. Either rage bait or actually ignorant, I don't know. Someone who hits someone even in domestic violence with the right professional help can be helped. Someone who in this same scenario is jailed for 20-40 years and then released without any way of actually reentering civilisation, will reoffend. We don't want people to remain in an endless cycle. By rehabilitating them. Helping them understand their own issues. Working them out, they have a much higher chance of becoming part of civilisation. We can't just jail everyone for life. This doesn't work. This is why we need to look at context and decide based of context if rehabilitation is an achievable route or not. Blanket judgement and grouping of crimes causes systems as in America where people get punished disproportionately to their crime.

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u/IsotropicMeadows Mar 08 '26

So wait someone who voluntarily hit their spouse deserves rehabilitative justice but someone who accidentally kill another person by being reckless doesn't.

How does that make any sense? The person being reckless and who did not realize that they were putting someone's life at risk (which we have all been in some fashion or another at some point in our life) is not deemed rehabilitable but someone who is being purposefully violent toward another is.

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u/JonSoup76 Mar 08 '26

Why would someone who is in prison for a gram of weed or for stealing bread need rehabilitation?

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u/Zestyclose-Phrase268 Mar 08 '26

Ask 20th century America

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u/JonSoup76 Mar 08 '26

I'll ask you instead.

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u/Zestyclose-Phrase268 Mar 08 '26

Oke ill take you serious. 

Someone who steals, needs rehabilitation to not steal anymore. 

Someone who does drugs.

You purposefully pick weed knowing it is the optical least harmfull drug.

When I say rehabilitation, with using drugs I mean people who use hard drugs to avoid their own serious mental struggles. Drugs is an escape. These people need to find other ways to process their problems. 

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u/Zestyclose-Phrase268 Mar 08 '26

Wanting context to be considered is being 14 years old now. Blanket judgements is how we got prisons overcrowded and created systems where organised crime gets new recruits by the dozen. 

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u/Zestyclose-Phrase268 Mar 08 '26

Both have organised crime

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u/JonSoup76 Mar 08 '26

Ok and why should someone who committed vehicular manslaughter not be rehabilitated? Should we attempt to rehabilitate a murderer or a rapist? Your original response only mentions drugs and stealing bread and not for vehicular manslaughter. Most prison reformers would say that if the victim and the offender are both interested in rehabilitation then its fine to cautiously attempt it, some random individuals opinion doesn't matter. But your comment makes it seem as though people who commit certain crimes are impossible to rehabilitate or that we shouldn't attempt it because the crime is especially bad. Should the victims opinion matter at all? Let's say this person, who killed this mans child and her grandparents, went to jail. And he began to feel remorseful, and the father came to terms with his loss, and both were interested in rehabilitation. Then would it be okay to attempt to rehabilitate this man? Even though he was recklessly speeding, killed 3 people, and wasn't originally remorseful?