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Re: Some other perspectives on the tragedy
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:33:01 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
> Or maybe a better example would be if you continually drive drunk down your
> street at 3:30 in the afternoon (I'm making the assumption here that, like
> Australia, that's about the time kids get home from school).
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> Would it be accidental when you hit one of the kids? Would it be any better
> than killing me with the baseball bat? I say no.
Better or worse I will not comment on. I think your example is inapplicable
to this situation, but I did want to point out that american law, at any
rate, distinguishes between these cases... driving drunk and killing someone
is negligent homicide, and killing someone deliberately is murder one.
Neither is "acceptable" but they ARE different.
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| (...) murder (...) cross (...) Not the same thing at all. Something closer would be if you buy a baseball bat...and kill me with it you are no more guilty than if you take that same bat and keep swinging it at a pile of baseballs when you know (...) (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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