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Originally Posted by valo403
Oddly enough the difference between treating something as manslaughter or murder is intent.
I don't oppose treating drunk driving offenses as mansluaghter, but without legal intent murder just doesn't really fit.
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That's not necessarily true. Killing with extreme indifference to the value of human life is still murder (2nd degree in the U.S., though I'm not sure how it works in Canada), and I'd argue that driving drunk is about as "indifferent to the value of human life" as you can get. Either way, what we call it is less important than how we punish it.