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> What do you mean “he doesn’t take responsibility”? It's probably an issue of poorly chosen words, but compare > fourteen months later I shot a man and unfor
by probably_wrong 7y ago
> What do you mean “he doesn’t take responsibility”?
It's probably an issue of poorly chosen words, but compare
> fourteen months later I shot a man and unfortunately caused his death.
with
> fourteen months later, I shot and killed a man.
The way that it's currently written sounds like an accident: "I, a victim of PTSD, shot a man and, in a bizarre twist of events, he died from it". The passive voice there paints a disconnection between the cause and the effect.
Of course, judging a man's life from two sentences is nonsense. It just so happens that those two sentences are very unfortunate. But that's on the editor.
- austhrow743 7y agoYeah his choice of language there could just as easily be applied to a hunting accident. Super minimising of his activities.
- Carpetsmoker 7y agoAt the same time, people are the product of our environment, so ignoring that context would also be foolish. Of course, it's easier to blame a child and sentence him to two decades of prison instead of actually fixing the urban hellholes they grew up in, so we end up with years of solitary confinement and these kind of comments on HN :-/
- falcor84 7y agoI don't quite see it that way - it reads to me as a very careful choice of words explaining that he shot the person intentionally, but did not intend for him to die. As I understand, this would be the difference between voluntary manslaughter and murder.
- leetcrew 7y agoit's not written in the passive voice though? in that sentence "shot" and "caused" are both active verbs with "I" as the subject. it's a bit more detached than saying "I shot and killed a man", but I don't think it shows a lack of remorse or responsibility. if anything, it emphasizes the regret at the irreversible outcome.