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You give far too little credit to pure recklessness. It takes a hundred practiced bad decisions to eventually decide it is okay to drive drunk. At that point yo
by abnry 6y ago
You give far too little credit to pure recklessness. It takes a hundred practiced bad decisions to eventually decide it is okay to drive drunk. At that point you are essentially gambling with people's lives.
If someone habitually rolls a die where a six gets someone killed, and they eventually roll a six, you got to ask why they were rolling the die so many times to begin with. In a very real sense the consequence is premeditated.
- mhh__ 6y ago> It takes a hundred practiced bad decisions to eventually decide it is okay to drive drunk. At that point you are essentially gambling with people's lives. True, but Alcoholism is a disease and can be treated. I don't subscribe to the, frankly, beastly view of my government that the poor and imprisoned aren't mostly determined by their nurture rather than their nature and "decisions" (We don't live in a vacuum).
- abnry 6y agoIf that is your logic then even the premeditated crimes should be only given slaps on the wrist as their "decisions" are as much of a product of their environment as anyone else's. They don't live in a vacuum either. It is, in fact, a rather patronising view to believe only the poor and unfortunate lack personal agency to make good decisions. As if bad circumstances shut off their brains and makes them incapable of doing anything.
- mhh__ 6y agoThe decision to go to the pub one day is a different kettle of fish to deciding to sell secrets for example. The difference between being poor and rich is that the poor can't recover from a bad decision, it's selection bias rather than a question of agency.