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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Why is drunk driving so much worse than other manslaughter?? Because of commercials and social sigma?
Is not malicious, it's carelessness. I'm not sure society is served by long term incarceration. It would not likely affect either incidence or recurrence, so what is the benefit?
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Drunk driving is worse because of how preventable it is and how it kills random people rather the people involved in the situation.
For example if two guys getvin a bar fight and one dies that isnt as bad because they participated in the nar fight. Driving home and killing some random person is far worth because you killed an innocent person. Its also why I have little sympathy when a passenger of a drunk driver dies as that peron made the same poor decision as the driver.
I think the bolded section is why its worse. Its such a blatent disregard for the rest of society done for no reason. At least with other murder there is a purpose. Drunk Driving is just such a waste of life.
Its also a crime that stiffer sentances may reduce incidents as all you need to do is make drniking and driving more inconvenient than the alternatives to reduce it. Increasing the risk should help with that. This would need to be looked at as it certainly isnt true for other major crimes.