• VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.vg
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    18 hours ago

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

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

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      3 minutes ago

      Recklessness generally also works in place of intentionally. Negligence is even lower, but is often reserved for civil suits.

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      12 hours ago

      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 foot 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

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        2 hours ago

        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.

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        8 hours ago

        You are the one doing mental gymnastics bro. What is that back yard comparison? Obviously you just swerve off the road, run him over and say you fell asleep - long day, had to work long hours to pay off my medical debt. Or have an old person run over CEOs, 80yo in cars kill people all the time because they should not be driving anymore. They always get off easy.