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I absolutely agree on all points. I just meant that, in the current system, if the murder weapon was different, he would've been getting much worse consequences.
Right, morality of prison notwithstanding our society does treat this particular murder weapon much more lightly than most others. Imagine his prison sentence if he walked into a store with a gun and oopsie whoopsie killed 2 people / maimed 11 others.
Or (to make the damage scenario a bit more realistic) went into a store juggling a hand grenade and whoopsie killed 2 people and maimed 11 others.
Totally on your side. A car is a super dangerous object, equally dangerous as a weapon, and driving one should be considered an immense privilege, not a right.
Car murderers can take the bus, and if there's no bus where they live, they can move somewhere else.
okay that's great but that's not what happened here
perhaps the bunch of you are thinking of another case, as it isn't unusual to commit intentional, premeditated homicide with a vehicle. but TFA doesn't say that anything like that happened here.
He proved that he is too irresponsible to not kill people on the road for a miniscule benefit of his (getting home a little bit faster by not taking a break when he really needs one).
If this wasn't a car but any other means of killing people it would be called murder.
again, not what happened here
Imagine if a gun misfire accidentally killed 2 people and maimed 11 more and you were primarily concerned with correcting what people called it. We all know the difference between murder and manslaughter, smart guy. The difference between you and everyone else in here is that we don't think emotional nomenclature invalidates concern for the lives of others. Like just think a little bit harder for one second, because you've demonstrated already that you have the juice to do that: Maybe our use of incendiary and somewhat inaccurate language was intentional? Maybe there is a social strategy at play here? And maybe, if that rhetoric upset you more that the deaths did, then perhaps people like you were it's intended target.
not what happened here