The short prison sentence doesn’t bother me. Prisons are a social poison that we should be doing away with for all but readily and immediately violent individuals.
What fucks me up is that he’s getting his keys handed back in six months. He’s getting quick and untested access right back to the large machine that he already demonstrated he is mortally dangerous when operating. Doesn’t sound like they’re even going to test him on correct use. That thing you just killed several people and maimed dozens others while operating? Welcome back buddy, do it again.
IMO he should be doing several years of community service, primarily as restorative repentance in the community where the crimes took place, and having his license revoked for at least five years. Getting it back should require a higher barrier of testing than the default. Put a black box in that car and have it report everything for the first year.
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 two 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.
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.
It is because this was not an intentional act, they fell asleep, were distracted by fatigue, or something of the sort. Basically this person was too tired to drive properly.
In my country falling asleep on the wheel (or just driving a car while being too fatigued to drive safely) is a crime punishable with up to 5 years and that’s if you hurt nobody.
Driving while fatigued is on par with driving drunk or under the influence of drugs.
Well you have to understand that conservative states are more worried about peoples’ right to transit than their right to safety. As a result, these sorts of things always get a low punishment while things like marijuana get harsher sentences.
We’re willing to tolerate the threat of abject homelessness as consequence for non-participation in the labor market, but revoking access to a car is seen as cruel and unusual because it makes access to that labor market more difficult.
It’s the most hypocritical shit in the universe. We don’t take a person’s drivers license when they kill someone with their car because we insist on essentially making them homeless if they don’t have one.
I honestly don’t even get that point. Maybe they won’t find a job where they live without owning a car. Then they should just move somewhere where there’s jobs closer to their home.
That’s two deaths. And they get a year?
The short prison sentence doesn’t bother me. Prisons are a social poison that we should be doing away with for all but readily and immediately violent individuals.
What fucks me up is that he’s getting his keys handed back in six months. He’s getting quick and untested access right back to the large machine that he already demonstrated he is mortally dangerous when operating. Doesn’t sound like they’re even going to test him on correct use. That thing you just killed several people and maimed dozens others while operating? Welcome back buddy, do it again.
IMO he should be doing several years of community service, primarily as restorative repentance in the community where the crimes took place, and having his license revoked for at least five years. Getting it back should require a higher barrier of testing than the default. Put a black box in that car and have it report everything for the first year.
Imagine he was a pilot or a forklift driver. He would never ever get his license back. That’s what should be done here.
He proved that he’s not capable of safely operating a car. Why should he ever be allowed that privilege again?
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.
not what happened here
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 two 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.
what do you think he is? a dirty weed smoker? filthy immigrant? its not like he was feeding the poor.
It is because this was not an intentional act, they fell asleep, were distracted by fatigue, or something of the sort. Basically this person was too tired to drive properly.
In my country falling asleep on the wheel (or just driving a car while being too fatigued to drive safely) is a crime punishable with up to 5 years and that’s if you hurt nobody.
Driving while fatigued is on par with driving drunk or under the influence of drugs.
Well you have to understand that conservative states are more worried about peoples’ right to transit than their right to safety. As a result, these sorts of things always get a low punishment while things like marijuana get harsher sentences.
If he hit a third cyclist, they’d have given him a medal
And a bonus
6-12 months, small fine, and 60 hours of community service.
And revoked driving licence during a part of his prison sentence.
Harsh, he won’t be able to drive while in prison.
Sounds like that’s what really pisses off Americans, not that they’re in a jail per se, but that they can’t drive while in there.
We’re willing to tolerate the threat of abject homelessness as consequence for non-participation in the labor market, but revoking access to a car is seen as cruel and unusual because it makes access to that labor market more difficult.
It’s the most hypocritical shit in the universe. We don’t take a person’s drivers license when they kill someone with their car because we insist on essentially making them homeless if they don’t have one.
I honestly don’t even get that point. Maybe they won’t find a job where they live without owning a car. Then they should just move somewhere where there’s jobs closer to their home.