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Originally Posted by REDVAN
You make some good points with your post. I would like to disagree on this point though, because I don't think everyone "deserves" to live just because they are alive. That's like saying abortion should be illegal because a fetus deserves to live. It's an ethical issue that is probably beyond the scope of this thread, and a lot of people won't like it, but: it was a random, preventable death. So are random gun shootings, house fires, regular car accidents. Sorry to sound insensitive, but people die everyday in ways that they absolutely should not. And yet they still do die. It doesn't make this case any worse, IMO, that the agent of death is known afterward to be a person. If this were weather related or something, then we would not be talking about it like weather is the sum of society...just everyone please relax, because this guy'll be going to jail for a while.
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You know some people would agree with that statement regardless of whether or not you were having a 'bad day' and forgot to wear a rubber!
On another note, the real reason why we dont' have tougher sentancing and consequences for drunk driving is because the silent majority doesn't deem it necessary to do so. Already we have DUI laws that violate the Charter (Blowing between 0.05 and 0.08, though still technically legal they still unconstitutionally impound your vehicle). With regards to tougher sentancing: not until aggrivated sexual assualt, Manslaughter, Second Degree Murder, and First Degree Murder charges have severly tougher sentances that get better enforced as well. The public will find it hard to believe that the Karla Homolka's of the world are somehow on par with someone who gets smashed behind the wheel.