🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <38E48098.48D0E316@compuserve.com>, rally2xs@compuserve.com 
says...
> OK, but he didn't wake up one morning and say, "I'm going to kill three people
> today".  It happened, he contributed to it, but the actual malice wasn't
> there.  51 years, 34 suspended.
> 
> How does that compare to someone who gets in a fight, wins, but the other guy
> dies?  Do they get sentences as severe?  If not, why not?  That would have
> malice attached.  I haven't really been watching the sentences for other
> causations of death, so I don't know.
> 
> As for the 0.11 BAC, the point is that there's no way to know that you're at
> 0.11 or 0.09 or 0.07 other than buying your own machine.  You aren't
> necessarily _intentionally_ driving drunk, you're just drinking, and maybe
> have erroneously calculated that you should be OK.
> 
> So the bottom line is that he could have done what he did with no intention to
> either break the law or hurt anyone, and gets 51 years.  Is this right, or
> does it only make sense in a revenge sort of way?
> 
> DPH

People need to realize that driving while drunk is WRONG, whether or not 
they maliciously try to kill somebody.

If they can't figure out it's wrong on concern-for-others grounds, then 
they need to realize it's wrong because they'll get a huge punishment 
out of it.