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Originally Posted by gargamel
If you shoot a gun into a spare crowd, you don't know without a doubt that someone will get hurt or killed. You know that it might happen, but by your definition, there's no intent.
The average Joe who has a few drinks after work probably isn't going to kill someone, but if he gets loaded and drives, then he does intend to put other people's lives at risk. If I did something while knowing that it would risk your life and you died from it, that's enough intent for me to deserve some severe punishment.
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You're running too far with intent in your drunk driving example, at least legally. Someone who gets loaded and drives intends to drive, not to kill someone. You can't pass the intent to do A through to intent to do B in that situation.