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I guess there aren't many other ways a regular person can accidentally kill someone. You can't accidentally stab or shoot one. If driving is legal, and people
by rich_sasha 2y ago
I guess there aren't many other ways a regular person can accidentally kill someone. You can't accidentally stab or shoot one.
If driving is legal, and people aren't assumed to be superhuman, then lapses of attention and judgments are to be expected, and so you're right - it is as if killing someone in a car is less penalizable.
I'm all for lower speed limits and separated bike lanes. I just guess we can't be surprised that people die when multi-tonne vehicles are driven around towns by mostly competent drivers.
- spacebanana7 2y agoAlso many fatal car accidents have some level of shared fault, which is rarer in other forms of accidental death. For example, one person might forget to indicate a motorway lane change whilst the other is driving at 120mph.
- PaulHoule 2y agoThey said Dick Cheney accidentally shot someone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney_hunting_accident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney_hunting_accident
- rich_sasha 2y agoTIL. But case in point actually - it was deemed an accident and Cheney got away scot-free, even though shooting someone ought to be about as serious an attempt to kill as it gets. Because it was an accident.
- stefs 2y agoOf course people are shot by accident all the time. There are even a few cases of hunting dogs shooting their owners (by stepping on the trigger).