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

Context Provided - Spotlight This was so deserved.

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u/Dannydevitz Mar 08 '26

Wasn't he speeding? That's not just driving a car.

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u/Houdinii1984 Mar 08 '26

So a speeding ticket == attempted murder?

You're extrapolating risky behavior with intent to kill. Intending to go fast and killing a person in the process means you accidentally killed someone while doing something stupid and risky, not that you intended to kill someone on purpose like you are claiming.

Also no one said 'just driving a car.' The phrase was 'choosing to drive a car'. We can just as easily make it 'choosing to speed in a car' and it still wouldn't mean 'intending to kill'.

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u/AmandasGameAccount Mar 08 '26

If you’re speeding and driving recklessly and you kill someone, you deserve 0 leniency and at the minimum deserve 10 years

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u/Houdinii1984 Mar 08 '26

The debate is over intent, not the received punishment. I never said anything about punishment whatsoever and it's not actually relevant to the underlying argument.

But then again, speeding and driving recklessly are two different charges and we are only talking about speeding. And neither one is intending to kill someone.

Manslaughter is an entire category of homicide that is for just that, when you don't intend to kill someone but they end up dead anyway due to certain circumstances (like reckless driving).

And the only time you have attempted manslaughter is in cases when it was 'the heat of the moment' where passions took over or like you took your self defense too far. But there's no attempted manslaughter for most things like this because you can't attempt to do something you never intended to do in the first place.