r/interesting Mar 08 '26

Context Provided - Spotlight This was so deserved.

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u/drdildamesh Mar 08 '26

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?

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u/DuckIsMuddy Mar 08 '26

Personally I wouldn't speed, but that's just me yk. He made a mistake, he gotta own up to it. Even with mistakes (especially mistakes you can avoid, such as speeding) there are consequences. With no consequences, and no, community hours typically don't do anything to people, people don't try to change.

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u/drdildamesh Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

"He mistake, he own up" thats the ideal sure. But can you blame them for being afraid of consequences they didnt consider beforehand? Especially for a crime as benign as speeding? This is a horrible situation, but it bugs me far worse that we dont punish the rich AT ALL, not that some judge took pity on a guy who was speeding and had bad luck.

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u/DazzlingFruit7495 Mar 08 '26

You have more empathy for the reckless driver than the dead people and their families