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The Sorrow and the Shame of the Accidental Killer
- justboxing 9y agoDUPE: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15269097 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15269097
- eksu 9y agoWhat’s the point if the other story has no discussion, other than to kill the topic again?
- wavefunction 9y agoNot my experience at all from losing a loved one to an accident. From what I can tell the murderer in my loved one's case doesn't feel a thing.
- cakedoggie 9y agoHow would you know?
- egwynn 9y agoMurderer? Accident? Clearly this is your story to tell and not mine, but those two words don’t usually go together. There’s probably a sense in which using the word “murderer” is technically correct, but it goes well against the grain of what the word connotes.
- mcguire 9y ago"Accident" and "murderer" are contradictory.
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- manyxcxi 9y agoWell, they are and they aren't. I think I may have an example that the poster was thinking about. At the very least, it's how I feel about it. Senior year of college one of my best friends was killed by another guy (within a few years of our age at the time). That person sucker punched him out behind a bar, had used something hard as a fist pack (it was alleged a roll of coins), and when my friend fell to the ground he hit his head on a curb and never woke up due to the injuries sustained. Did that person INTEND to kill my friend? I don't think he did. He certainly aimed to harm him, but I don't think he wanted him dead. But yet here we are, my friend has been murdered by someone else who meant to harm him, but probably not to kill him. An accidental murder. To add, the person who committed the act had been in and out of lots of trouble and never showed remorse over it either. He didn't seem like he was happy it happened, just didn't seem like he really gave a shit either way.
- arthurbrown 9y agoThe amount of death we accept as a society just for the convenience of automobile travel astounds me. It's been normalised at this point, but surely at some time there was an outcry -- at least in the Netherlands they managed to make a change before it became entrenched.
- cakedoggie 9y agoIt is absolutely ridiculous we allow vehicles traveling at many kms per hour a few meters from our front doors. There is no way if we didn't already have this system, that we would ever implment it now. But somehow most people think it is acceptable. For the chance to get somewhere slightly quicker, or not have to use PT or cycle.
- jack9 9y agoThe ridiculous part is that we allow humans (~15% of Americans have IQs so low that the US military can't utilize them) to pilot these death machines. I support rushed legislation for as much automation as possible, for travel.
- mikeash 9y agoAt the very least, it's ridiculous that we allow humans to do this with only minimal training and infrequent, often nonexistent, ongoing testing. Humans are always fallible no matter how well trained, but there are differences of degree. The way it is in the US right now, it seems like half the drivers can barely manage to keep their car in the lane.
- Aloha 9y agoYou don't need to be smart to be a good driver, its a fallacy and kind of insulting.
- flukus 9y agoI don't know if smart is the right word and I very much doubt IQ is the correct measure, but you do need to evaluate dozens of factors quickly and continuously while driving, always paying attention and updating your risk assessment. It's a mentally taxing exercise and many people can't do a remotely good enough job.
- RickJWag 9y agoStrong parallels to the horrible guilt of an abortion. I wish strength to anyone carrying burdens of this type. Truly life-long wounds.
- mafsedan 9y agoJust think how bad the victim felt!