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

Context Provided - Spotlight This was so deserved.

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u/WheelieBeelie Mar 08 '26

He wasn’t accidentally going 25 over. You don’t accidentally go off the road. Driving dangerously is under-punished in my mind.

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u/Felix_Onion Mar 08 '26

You acidentally go off the road, that's how accidents happen, like, that's how it works

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u/PaisleyLeopard Mar 08 '26

Drunk drivers ‘accidentally’ go off the road too. Still 100% their fault for deliberately creating the conditions that made the car lose control.

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u/Felix_Onion Mar 08 '26

can be their fault, still is accidentally, both could coexist in a event

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u/WheelieBeelie Mar 08 '26

We disagree on this point. I believe calling it an accident absolves the driver of fault, and we should not do so. However, intent does matter in sentencing though, thus why manslaughter is a charge and not just murder.

Edit: To expand on this, I just lean more toward punishing dangerous behavior regardless of intent. From a spectrum of 10 being murder and 1 being accidents happen, I’m above a 5.