> "Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence" That's why we have a term "criminal negligence", because sometimes it's impo

> "Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence" That's why we have a term "criminal negligence", because sometimes it's impossible to tell malice from incompetence. So the law basically decided, "Well, fuck this, if you do something as stupid as (putting a faulty brake on a train, for example), then you deserve to go to jail, and we don't care if you were actually thrilled to kill passengers or were simply too stupid to understand what you were doing."