If Luigi had killed that CEO with a car he'd be free right now

https://lemmy.world/post/23249525

If Luigi had killed that CEO with a car he'd be free right now - Lemmy.World

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This is incredibly reductive and makes us look like idiots who don’t understand “intent”.

I get it, fuck cars, but this is ridiculous and only serves to make us look like a joke

“Oops, my foot slipped on the wrong pedal.”

Intent without confessions and manifestos may not be that easy to prove.

They’re not comparable.

If I’m at a firing range, where it is expected that people are carrying guns and ammunition, I can pull the same “oops, my finger slipped” excuse.

Similarly, if I drive my car around the side of your house and into your back yard to run you over, I can’t claim “my for slipped”.

Seriously, stop with the mental gymnastics. We don’t need to reach for more reasons to say “fuck cars.” There are plenty within arms reach

Similarly, if I drive my car around the side of your house and into your back yard to run you over, I can’t claim “my foot slipped”.

I see one of those posts with cars crashed into houses every week somewhere. No murder charge.

Perhaps that’s because… There usually aren’t fatalities inside the home???
Hey, remember that story a while back about the rich kid that “accidentally” ran his truck through a pack of cyclists trying to roll coal on them? What ended up happening to him? (To be fair, nobody died, but still, 6 people seriously injured, at least a couple of those were life changing injuries, you’d think that would be comparable severity…)
We’re actually talking about this in another reply to my comment haha. Outcome is unknown because he was charged as a minor so literally everything is sealed but he did graduate highschool so not in prison