You're grasping for informal logical fallacies, because it makes you feel smart to level them at people on the internet. Within the context of this article, th

You're grasping for informal logical fallacies, because it makes you feel smart to level them at people on the internet. Within the context of this article, there's no real evidence of an impairment to the driver's ability, willful or otherwise. From TFA: ...remembers the driver [...] getting out of her car with a cell phone pressed against her ear... But there's no statement that this was a cell phone related accident. No evidence denoted that the driver was willfully negligent, even after being convicted of criminal charges, which likely would have surfaced any relevant call records from the cell provider. So, the very premise is bullshit with regard to this specific case, because GP's false quote not an actual statement from the situation at hand, in this case. It's hypothetical rhetoric. As far I can tell, this is not really any kind of criminal assault. The law is being manipulated to achieve a desired outcome. Maybe this is an accident, in violation of the three foot rule, but a court requires evidence, not mere suspicion. In reality, to classify this as assault is to equivocate this with intentional wrongdoing, which it isn't. Wrongful injury? Something deserving real consequences? Sure, but you'd never convince me of an assault charge, personally. Revocation of driver's license? Yeah! Fines? Damages? Yeah! Jail? Loss of rights? No way. This is not a very obviously violent person, to be removed from society on a whim. It's not a person who's behavior was so reprehensible that they get demoted from participating in civil society. Maybe they lose access to the roads, and vehicles therein, but this case is not deserving of further justice in the criminal sense. The conviction is really just a demonstration of contempt. It's not true justice, but the making of an example, and only to send a message, while the actual laws on the books remain an inadequate expression of social boundaries.