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Originally Posted by Tfong
This is the reasoning im applying to "child soldiers". While yes its a shame that he is coerced or brainwashed into supporting enemy troops. But that does not diminish the damage he/she has done. A grenade thrown by a 15 or 20 year old has the same destructive force and a person(s) is still dead. Thats why its a war crime for people to recruit child soldiers. But lets not diminish that a 15 year old with a rifle is as deadly as a 20 year old with a rifle.
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Now apply that logic to killing someone with your car. The courts have the ability to consider all factors and proceed accordingly. There is a massive difference between me killing someone while having a medical issue, a pedestrian that popped out into traffic, running someone down intentionally in road rage, drinking and driving, texting and not seeing a red light, etc.
The end result is that someone else is dead, and that sucks. But the law will be applied according to the contributing factors, not in a knee jerk fashion.
Apples to oranges, obviously, but let's not pretend that we'd like the law to be ignorantly black and white.