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Originally Posted by REDVAN
It's sad that someone died, and the person responsible doesn't have to rot in jail- HOWEVER- you can believe that the guilty person will feel bad everyday for the rest of their life, knowing that someone died as a result of them. How would you live with that thought? I know it would haunt me each and every day and I would require serious mental health support.
And, also: not to defend the guilty person, but he was guilty of manslaughter.
Manslaughter is much, much different than MURDER, which is what a KILLER does. A manslaughter-er is not a killer IMO. Somewhat sensationalist title for the linked article.
edit: A manslaughter-er is not a killer IMO... I should say "A manslaughter-er is not neccessarily a killer IMO", because I guess it is possible, but I'd hate to paint every manslaughter-er with the killer brush. It could have been a terrible accident. |
Manslaughter to me is an argument of semantics, basically he got into his car drunk or not and plowed into a crowd. Drunk or not he certainly put his life above others.
I always have trouble with the argument that he's going to be guilty for the rest of his life. I never believe it, especially after such a short sentence.
I'd really like to see public acts as part of the sentencing since Canada is all about rehabilitation and short sentencing.
But do I think he feels guilty, no the cynical part of me figures that he felt bad that he was caught, but I also feel that he's laughing at the justice system over how gentle they were to him.
but we'll never know will we.
But the victim and her family certainly doesn't feel good about it and thats important.