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Originally Posted by REDVAN
Everyone makes mistakes.
In our society, you have to give the guy a chance to defend himself and see what happens.
I also think that any normal person would be scarred for life from this, and would have trouble with mental stability and all that. It's not the first time someone has done something wrong, and there's been far worse.
Justifiable homicide? I'm sure this is ignorant internet talk. I am amazed by what people say sometimes, this is just ludicrous. You probably don't even know half the details, and you say you are going to murder him yourself. Good luck. If you said that to him when he walked out of court, you yourself would be (and should be) going to jail for a long time.
P.S. We will never know what the kids could grow up to, and we'll never know what the adults could have done the rest of their lives. Perhaps the parents weren't good people themselves? There's more than one type of wrong...
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Regardless of whether or not the deceased were good parents, and regardless of whether or not the kids would have grown up to be Nobel Prize Winners or gangbangers, all 5 at least deserved the chance to make it to the next day. They were robbed of that chance because Tschetter made an @sshole, stupid, selfish decision.
Tschetter SHOULD be scarred for life. Seriously. The mental agony of knowing that you took 5 lives because you were stupid enough to be driving A CEMENT MIXER while IMPAIRED is the least he should be going through. The fact that he's pleaded not guilty, and is being charged with a lesser offense (manslaughter) does nothing to redeem him in my eyes. And the fact that there have been worse atrocities committed doesn't make this any better (If I mug someone, is it okay because at least I didn't stab them? If I get caught and get 3 hours in jail, is it okay because someone who did something worse didn't spend any time in jail?)
No, he didn't "mean" to kill them. Ask any impaired driver who causes an accident if they "meant" to do it, and all of them will say no. But, the effects of alcohol (and drugs) on things like depth perception, reflexes, reaction times, and relative positioning (how far from the curb am I?) are well known. Impaired driving is illegal for a reason, and it's not because the law is a giant killjoy. It's because there is more than one person in our society, and as much as it sucks sometimes (hello, people who can't merge!), you have to look out for them just as much as yourself.
He CHOSE to drink that night. He then CHOSE to get behind the wheel of his cement truck and drive to some other location. Both of those choices endangered not only himself, but every other driver he encountered on the road that night. And, worst of all, his first instinct upon pulverizing a family was not to frantically dial 911, but to hide the vodka bottle. He left the panic and shock and despair to the witnesses on scene and the Emergency responders. Stand up guy.
Dude didn't even hit the brakes. He seriously didn't even SEE the car in front of him, that's how impaired he was. So, yeah, there's more than one type of wrong. But this type was the 100% PREVENTABLE type...he just needed to DRINK, or not DRIVE. Seriously, it was that easy a choice.
I am a nice person, in all honesty. I rescue puppies (much to DESS' dismay) and volunteer at my grandma's retirement home. I have found the ability to forgive people in my life who have deeply, deeply hurt me. But I truly feel nothing but contempt and disgust for Tschetter. Would I kill him, or maim him, or whatever? No. That's not going to bring back the victims. There are other ways to punish people that don't involve violence.
So, yeah, we'll give him a chance to defend himself. It's a chance he never gave his victims. And, I'm sorry, but I don't agree with your later post where you say he'll probably go to jail for a very long time. He's pled down to manslaughter, IIRC, which carries a much lighter penalty than 5 counts of murder.