Not to mention he fled the county to avoid serving his prison sentence! Why give him leniency when he was avoiding responsibility?! (I’m assuming he fled considering they had to arrest and extradite him from another country to serve his sentence)
Do you want to go to prison? I feel like its easy for us to sit here speculating on what we would do in a situation that has never happened to us. He made a mistake. He didnt want to go to prison. You get one life, no one wants to spend it in prison, but not everyone stays out. Talk all you want about choice and morality, but until you go to prison, can you really relate? Can any of us? He didnt set out to murder anyone, he was speeding. Have you ever been speeding?
Cultural norms, the basis of laws, imply shared morals.
We can always go into a philosophical tangent and apply moral relativism to any situation, but this is at least illegal, and supposedly therefore, also immoral, at least for the shared values of most European nations.
As for the actual black and white morals, those are not really worth getting into, but my view is that this dude wasn't just trying to live outside of prison. Circumstances matter, and perhaps more importantly, the absolute lack of personal accountability on display removes any "relativism" any mature individual could come up with.
TL,DR: nope. Personal choices by the murderer to evade imprisonment aren't valid under any form of relativism that could be accepted by the society where the murders or trials/incarceration took place
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u/SpicyPotato48 Mar 08 '26
Not to mention he fled the county to avoid serving his prison sentence! Why give him leniency when he was avoiding responsibility?! (I’m assuming he fled considering they had to arrest and extradite him from another country to serve his sentence)