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The Freakonomics guys did a podcast on the perfect murder, and it turns out it was "kill someone with your car" because only a tiny percentage of people that ki
by e40 12y ago
The Freakonomics guys did a podcast on the perfect murder, and it turns out it was "kill someone with your car" because only a tiny percentage of people that kill pedestrians are prosecuted for manslaughter. Tiny.
This is also evil, though I'm not sure who is to blame for it.
- Zikes 12y agoI'm betting that's because it's at the bottom of a list of deaths whose cause can be directly traced to an individual. Surely the perfect murder would look like an act of complete provenance, with no apparent ties to anyone else or suspicions as to the cause.
- eru 12y agoDepends on what your goal is. Some people would gloat a lot, if everyone would know they did it, but nobody could prove anything in court.
- upofadown 12y agoI think it is a form of judicial corruption where the justice system does what is popular rather than what is right. Pretty much everyone drives and anyone can make a mistake while driving. The needs of the majority outweigh the needs of the few. The Canadian Supreme Court actually stated this principle in a decision where they weighed the "social value" of driving against the responsibility of the driver. If we were to make drivers strictly responsible for their actions we would make the value of the automobile less. Ref: R v Roy
- eru 12y agoUnfortunately, making the automobile worth more, makes pedestrians (ie everyone's) life worth less.