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Originally Posted by gargamel
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.
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Has anyone ever won that argument in a court of law? It's tenuous at best. Pretty sure they just get charged with vehicular manslaughter in the US.