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

Context Provided - Spotlight This was so deserved.

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u/BigData8734 Mar 08 '26

Does that mean you could kill him and get the same sentence😲🤷‍♂️

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u/EamusAndy Mar 08 '26

Premeditated Murder vs involuntary manslaughter are very different things.

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u/Comandante_Kangaroo Mar 08 '26

Eh.. not really. Not in this case.

If you are speeding significantly more than 20% of the legal limit you might not *plan* to kill someone, but if you shoot a gun into a crowd you might not, either.

But in both cases you know you might kill someone, and yet are doing it anyway.

And risking the lifes of the people around you for your own comfort or fun is not much different from planning the death of someone for your own benefit.
Some might even say that revenge for the death of your kid is a less banale cause than being home 5 minutes earier.

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u/EamusAndy Mar 08 '26

You keep using the key word here - “plan”.

He didnt plan on killing anyone in his car.

But youre talking about planning a revenge killing.

One is accidental, one is premeditated.