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Re: More fodder, similar topic(was: Re: Driver humiliated)
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Tue, 12 Oct 2004 00:47:03 GMT
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Tim Courtney wrote:
Is it right to hold people responsible for not stopping someone drunk
from getting behind the wheel? Five years prison each for this?

Hmm, it sounds like the tried to prevent the person from doing harm. How
much should they try? Do they have to risk death themselves? Criminalizing
failure to prevent another from committing a crime is a pretty dangerous
slope to perch on.

Frank



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  More fodder, similar topic(was: Re: Driver humiliated)
 
(...) I ran into this BBC article this evening: (URL) it right to hold people responsible for not stopping someone drunk from getting behind the wheel? Five years prison each for this? I really could go either way. Again, I'm not very up on modern (...) (20 years ago, 7-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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