It's ironic I feel that the 16 year old in question got pretty close to what I think should be a pretty appropriate punishment for his crime but the reason he did was profoundly awful and a travesty of justice
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
Driving a 1 ton death machine is a dangerous activity.
So you can be sober enough to be a full blown murderer for driving drunk, but not sober enough to consent to accepting the risk of riding with a drunk driver...
I don't know what the friend being drunk has to do with anything?
I posit that if the driver has enough agency to be held accountable for the actions of drunk driving, then the passenger who agreed to get in the car with him is not a victim but a willing participant.
So if the passenger in the car was sober would he be more or less responsible for dying in a car crash?
more, because you're stupid if you get in the car with a drunk driver. You're also stupid if you drive drunk. You're also stupid if you're drunk and you get in the car with a drunk driver, but not as stupid because you were drunk and didn't think things through.
But neither is the drunk driver an EVIL MURDERER.
They are someone who lacked the cognitive agency to fully explore the consequences of their actions.
I am not saying driving drunk is okay anymore than Pony is. I'm saying I reject that they are horrible evil murderers.
Errr... this makes it sound like a mental condition that is wholly unexpected and can't be planned for
Which isn't the case, you know ahead of time when you drink that you'll have to at some point get home. You also know that drunk driving is illegal.
You also know that getting in the car with someone drunk is fucking bonkers.
Come on, really? The driver is responsible, he knows before he starts drinking that he's going to be responsible for things that happen while he's driving. This isn't that complicated
I think we can both agree texting while driving is dangerous because it impairs your abilities. If someone is texting when the driver gets them both killed is it their responsibility? No?
Because it's the driver's responsibility to not drive impaired!
I agree, which is why drunk driving should be punished to discourage the behavior. However, that still doesn't make drunk drivers murderers. Manslaughterers? Maybe.
And it sure as fuck doesn't absolve the drunk friend that got back in the car with you of any responsibility and make them a 100% innocent victim. And to anticipate the question, yes I do think there is a damn sight bit of difference between that and "wearing that skirt", so lets not try to say I'm making this a broad stroke and saying all victims have some responsibility because I am not.
So, if I was driving recklessly and got in an accident that killed my passenger and I was sober is that not murder?
I'd argue if you had no INTENT to kill your passenger, then no, that is still manslaughter, but at the very least you were SOBER which puts you back in the realm of having full autonomy over your decisions, so I wouldn't rankle at 2nd degree based on the facts.
To anticipate the goal posts: If I got in the car with my sober friend, I may not have any valid way of knowing he's going to go 80 in 40. If my friend and I just got through doing shots together for 2 hours and taking pictures with each other at the bar, if he drunkenly has enough agency to be held accountable for driving drunk, I drunkenly have enough agency to be held accountable for deciding to get in the car with him.
I'd actually like to chime in that we should multiply mass transit a billion fold in America because driving everywhere all the time as your only option is bad for lots of reasons
Sure, but we barely have the money to fix the non-maintenance in our current transportation system. We definitely don't have the money to overlay it with even a semi-comprehensive new one.
Maybe after we sort a bunch of other shit out.
We absolutely have enough money for all of those things, we just don't have the political will to both allocate it properly and raise the necessary funds
The logistical undertaking of redesigning a city to efficiently use mass transit is massive. Doing it nationwide in a country of 300m is astronomical. I don't know about where you live, but neither my city nor state can afford it (and MN is doing pretty well economically), and whole the federal government might be able to fund some of their own, they can't afford to subsidize municipal systems nationwide. Is love it if they could, but I've never seen any indication it'd be doable. Now, if they put 10-20 years of serious upkeep into the current infrastructure first, and then maintained that sort of a budget to put a hefty chunk towards mass transit, while encouraging city planners to play along by carrot and stick... I could see is getting there by mid-century. Which sounds like a long time, but that'd be a complete overhaul basically.
"Tried as an adult" is a phrase that makes me deeply uncomfortable.
in what way
the only people who should be tried as adults
are adults
if we, as a society, have adulthood as a legal concept
then it exists as a concrete concept
not as a fluid notion to be applied whenever we think a crime is so heinous a child couldn't possibly commit it and there's no way a juvenile system can deal with a crime that bad
a child is a child
an adult is an adult
a child is only ever "tried as an adult" when the prosecution feels their crime is too heinous for juvenile court and the juvenile justice system
which smacks of a retributive, punishment-oriented system designed to make the public feel avenged, not prevent future crime or restore some quality of life to the victimized.
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"Tried as an adult" is a phrase that makes me deeply uncomfortable.
in what way
the only people who should be tried as adults
are adults
if we, as a society, have adulthood as a legal concept
then it exists as a concrete concept
not as a fluid notion to be applied whenever we think a crime is so heinous a child couldn't possibly commit it and there's no way a juvenile system can deal with a crime that bad
a child is a child
an adult is an adult
a child is only ever "tried as an adult" when the prosecution feels their crime is too heinous for juvenile court and the juvenile justice system
which smacks of a retributive, punishment-oriented system designed to make the public feel avenged, not prevent future crime or restore some quality of life to the victimized.
Those laws exist to protect white children, Pony.
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
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I think adulthood as a legal concept is silly but there's really no good way to do it otherwise.
I know some people in their 20s that don't have enough world experience and responsibility to be punished at the same level as their peers.
Innocence and ignorance don't magically leave your body on your 18th birthday.
I'm not saying there's a good answer. I'm just saying the one we have is shitty too.
the amount of animosity and vitriol people reflexively snarl out at drunk drivers makes my eyebrows furrow
because they're like "If you drive drunk and you hit someone you're a murderer, you knew exactly what you were doing getting behind the wheel of that car and you made a choice and you're just as responsible for that person's death as someone who stabbed another human being to death!"
yet
the argument also exists that a person who is chemically inebriated (by alcohol or otherwise) isn't capable of giving their full legal consent and erego someone who takes advantage of them in that state is doing something wrong to them, because they can't make full knowing choices for themselves and are barely aware of what's going on.
now, i can hear your knee jerking. i can hear you saying "oh c'mon, Pony. There's a clear difference between a guy who is half in the bag and trying to drive and a girl who is black-out drunk at a frat party. The former is still cogent enough of himself to be held responsible and the latter isn't" but that isn't the place the law tries to make its arguments from. It makes its arguments from a place of impairment, and a person who is impaired is a person who is impaired. How impaired they are can be highly variable and can depend on a lot of things, but you'll notice DUI doesn't make a distinction between "He was too tipsy" and "Dude was fuckin' blasted" because an impaired person has impaired reason, impaired judgment, impaired faculties. That's why they're a danger on the road, that's why they can't give consent. They're not themselves, they're not their full cogent faculties. They're impaired.
so maybe
maybe
dial the rhetoric back a little
still hold people who drive drunk legally responsible for their actions of course
but
No. People -while fully undrunk at a function and knowing that they are driving later in the night- will drink with the knowledge that the end of it they will get behind the wheel and take their chances. Everyone person in this thread has seen this happen. I can't make a claim to what percentage of drunk drivers this is, but I'm not buying the claim the only thing to consider is the mental state of that drunk person while they were drunk. Yes, they still could've backed out that point, and their inebriated minds didn't make that decision, but their sober ones also made some god awful terrible decisions.
My youngest son, and my Akita, when they were both a lot younger and smaller...
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Man talking to a computer program feels so weirdly uncomfortable to me. I remember when cellphone headsets became common that felt so weird to me too, like people were talking into thin air even though I concretely knew what was going. And I of course do that too without feeling weird now.
But I am not sure I can get used to talking with machines, with voice being the interface. So I think I've identified the border where I become old and kids will look at me in shame like I am senile in 20 years when I can't/won't use cool products anymore.
"Tried as an adult" is a phrase that makes me deeply uncomfortable.
in what way
the only people who should be tried as adults
are adults
if we, as a society, have adulthood as a legal concept
then it exists as a concrete concept
not as a fluid notion to be applied whenever we think a crime is so heinous a child couldn't possibly commit it and there's no way a juvenile system can deal with a crime that bad
a child is a child
an adult is an adult
a child is only ever "tried as an adult" when the prosecution feels their crime is too heinous for juvenile court and the juvenile justice system
which smacks of a retributive, punishment-oriented system designed to make the public feel avenged, not prevent future crime or restore some quality of life to the victimized.
More generally, I have a distinct problem with a justice system that arbitrarily decides that they don't like the rules that apply, so they're going to use these rules instead.
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
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The word synonymous with childhood in this regard is "innocence"
Not innocence in the sense of being innocent of a crime but innocence in the Platonic sense, in the conceptual notion of childlike innocence of what people can accept a child can and cannot do.
A 14 year old boy is brought before the court for stealing a car, joyriding, and then smashing it into a post, and gets maybe a bit of time in a juvenile facility and some probation, people will nod their heads and go "He was a stupid kid, doing something dumb. Where were his parents? He needs to get his life straightened out."
A 14 year old boy shoots a 13 year old boy in the face and kills him over a drug buy, people howl "He's a murderer! Cold-blooded! Try him as an adult!"
Are those wildly different crimes with wildly different sentences? Absolutely. But that's not why people want him tried as an adult, and you know it and I know it.
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
"What you did is too horrible that you could possibly actually be a child."
"She looks older than her chronological age."
One of these concepts is what we base a legal system's punishment concept around.
The other is something that a judge said that is absolutely awful.
To anticipate the goal posts: If I got in the car with my sober friend, I may not have any valid way of knowing he's going to go 80 in 40. If my friend and I just got through doing shots together for 2 hours and taking pictures with each other at the bar, if he drunkenly has enough agency to be held accountable for driving drunk, I drunkenly have enough agency to be held accountable for deciding to get in the car with him.
I would say this is a fairly good defense against the paralyzed kid's inevitable civil suit
the only problem with it is our god damn juries have sympathy for white male youths who are paralyzed from someone else's negligence+, even if they were on the same level of negligence+
Now if the passenger was sober and the driver drunk it would be on another order of difficulty...
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To anticipate the goal posts: If I got in the car with my sober friend, I may not have any valid way of knowing he's going to go 80 in 40. If my friend and I just got through doing shots together for 2 hours and taking pictures with each other at the bar, if he drunkenly has enough agency to be held accountable for driving drunk, I drunkenly have enough agency to be held accountable for deciding to get in the car with him.
I would say this is a fairly good defense against the paralyzed kid's inevitable civil suit
the only problem with it is our god damn juries have sympathy for white male youths who are paralyzed from someone else's negligence+, even if they were on the same level of negligence+
Now if the passenger was sober and the driver drunk it would be on another order of difficulty...
In this scenario the passenger should be charged with some sort good Samaritan law violation or aiding and abetting.
To anticipate the goal posts: If I got in the car with my sober friend, I may not have any valid way of knowing he's going to go 80 in 40. If my friend and I just got through doing shots together for 2 hours and taking pictures with each other at the bar, if he drunkenly has enough agency to be held accountable for driving drunk, I drunkenly have enough agency to be held accountable for deciding to get in the car with him.
I would say this is a fairly good defense against the paralyzed kid's inevitable civil suit
the only problem with it is our god damn juries have sympathy for white male youths who are paralyzed from someone else's negligence+, even if they were on the same level of negligence+
Now if the passenger was sober and the driver drunk it would be on another order of difficulty...
the amount of animosity and vitriol people reflexively snarl out at drunk drivers makes my eyebrows furrow
because they're like "If you drive drunk and you hit someone you're a murderer, you knew exactly what you were doing getting behind the wheel of that car and you made a choice and you're just as responsible for that person's death as someone who stabbed another human being to death!"
yet
the argument also exists that a person who is chemically inebriated (by alcohol or otherwise) isn't capable of giving their full legal consent and erego someone who takes advantage of them in that state is doing something wrong to them, because they can't make full knowing choices for themselves and are barely aware of what's going on.
now, i can hear your knee jerking. i can hear you saying "oh c'mon, Pony. There's a clear difference between a guy who is half in the bag and trying to drive and a girl who is black-out drunk at a frat party. The former is still cogent enough of himself to be held responsible and the latter isn't" but that isn't the place the law tries to make its arguments from. It makes its arguments from a place of impairment, and a person who is impaired is a person who is impaired. How impaired they are can be highly variable and can depend on a lot of things, but you'll notice DUI doesn't make a distinction between "He was too tipsy" and "Dude was fuckin' blasted" because an impaired person has impaired reason, impaired judgment, impaired faculties. That's why they're a danger on the road, that's why they can't give consent. They're not themselves, they're not their full cogent faculties. They're impaired.
so maybe
maybe
dial the rhetoric back a little
still hold people who drive drunk legally responsible for their actions of course
but
No. People -while fully undrunk at a function and knowing that they are driving later in the night- will drink with the knowledge that the end of it they will get behind the wheel and take their chances. Everyone person in this thread has seen this happen. I can't make a claim to what percentage of drunk drivers this is, but I'm not buying the claim the only thing to consider is the mental state of that drunk person while they were drunk. Yes, they still could've backed out that point, and their inebriated minds didn't make that decision, but their sober ones also made some god awful terrible decisions.
One thing to point out on this point is that people with severe enough drinking problems can have quite a lot to drink and still feel normal. They are absolutely impaired, but they might feel totally fine to get in a car and drive. Not that they are not fully responsible for getting behind the wheel, but just a distinction to make.
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My youngest son, and my Akita, when they were both a lot younger and smaller...
even then he couldn't find his shoes
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
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May I question why there are binary alternatives for tried as adult and being tried as a child.
Like for instance a ten year old accidentally discharging a weapon that hits someone cannot likely have any fucking clue. But a sixteen year old for instance drunk driving and killing people I would say probably has a pretty well formed idea of what can happen; the concept of death; personal responsibility to some degree.
That being said I know almost zero about this case in particular.
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If you think a 16 year old has a concept of death you've never seen their car insurance rates
burn it all down, bulldoze everything, build trains everywhere and then now we have self driving cars and problem is solved DUH SO EASY DUH I SHOULD WIN A PRIZE
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honestly reading up on this whole "Affluenza" thing it seems like the McDonalds hot coffee woman all over again
where the wrong details are getting emphasized, the facts of the case are getting ignored, and the media is riling people up for the sake of riling people up
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Let's put everyone in arcologies. Then no one needs to drive.
Diminished responsibility is a hard topic but a hardly a new one and how that concept applies often depends on the offence. But I don't really care about the case law tbh. I'm not a criminal lawyer so I don't need to and I am happy to apply judgement based on foreseeability.
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I'd argue if you had no INTENT to kill your passenger, then no, that is still manslaughter, but at the very least you were SOBER which puts you back in the realm of having full autonomy over your decisions, so I wouldn't rankle at 2nd degree based on the facts.
To anticipate the goal posts: If I got in the car with my sober friend, I may not have any valid way of knowing he's going to go 80 in 40. If my friend and I just got through doing shots together for 2 hours and taking pictures with each other at the bar, if he drunkenly has enough agency to be held accountable for driving drunk, I drunkenly have enough agency to be held accountable for deciding to get in the car with him.
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
The logistical undertaking of redesigning a city to efficiently use mass transit is massive. Doing it nationwide in a country of 300m is astronomical. I don't know about where you live, but neither my city nor state can afford it (and MN is doing pretty well economically), and whole the federal government might be able to fund some of their own, they can't afford to subsidize municipal systems nationwide. Is love it if they could, but I've never seen any indication it'd be doable. Now, if they put 10-20 years of serious upkeep into the current infrastructure first, and then maintained that sort of a budget to put a hefty chunk towards mass transit, while encouraging city planners to play along by carrot and stick... I could see is getting there by mid-century. Which sounds like a long time, but that'd be a complete overhaul basically.
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and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
the only people who should be tried as adults
are adults
if we, as a society, have adulthood as a legal concept
then it exists as a concrete concept
not as a fluid notion to be applied whenever we think a crime is so heinous a child couldn't possibly commit it and there's no way a juvenile system can deal with a crime that bad
a child is a child
an adult is an adult
a child is only ever "tried as an adult" when the prosecution feels their crime is too heinous for juvenile court and the juvenile justice system
which smacks of a retributive, punishment-oriented system designed to make the public feel avenged, not prevent future crime or restore some quality of life to the victimized.
Those laws exist to protect white children, Pony.
I know some people in their 20s that don't have enough world experience and responsibility to be punished at the same level as their peers.
Innocence and ignorance don't magically leave your body on your 18th birthday.
I'm not saying there's a good answer. I'm just saying the one we have is shitty too.
Technically, if I did it while escaping from a bank robbery I could probably be charged with felony murder!
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and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
No. People -while fully undrunk at a function and knowing that they are driving later in the night- will drink with the knowledge that the end of it they will get behind the wheel and take their chances. Everyone person in this thread has seen this happen. I can't make a claim to what percentage of drunk drivers this is, but I'm not buying the claim the only thing to consider is the mental state of that drunk person while they were drunk. Yes, they still could've backed out that point, and their inebriated minds didn't make that decision, but their sober ones also made some god awful terrible decisions.
My youngest son, and my Akita, when they were both a lot younger and smaller...
But I am not sure I can get used to talking with machines, with voice being the interface. So I think I've identified the border where I become old and kids will look at me in shame like I am senile in 20 years when I can't/won't use cool products anymore.
More generally, I have a distinct problem with a justice system that arbitrarily decides that they don't like the rules that apply, so they're going to use these rules instead.
I'd stand about as much of a chance as a behoodied minority youth in an orlando suburb.
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Steampunk Star Wars
90s Game of Thrones
Blaxploitation Star Wars
Steampunk Avengers
Traditional Fantasy X-Men
Seriously, is this all dumb stuff like this
90's Mass Effect
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Ok that one is kind of cool
Not innocence in the sense of being innocent of a crime but innocence in the Platonic sense, in the conceptual notion of childlike innocence of what people can accept a child can and cannot do.
A 14 year old boy is brought before the court for stealing a car, joyriding, and then smashing it into a post, and gets maybe a bit of time in a juvenile facility and some probation, people will nod their heads and go "He was a stupid kid, doing something dumb. Where were his parents? He needs to get his life straightened out."
A 14 year old boy shoots a 13 year old boy in the face and kills him over a drug buy, people howl "He's a murderer! Cold-blooded! Try him as an adult!"
Are those wildly different crimes with wildly different sentences? Absolutely. But that's not why people want him tried as an adult, and you know it and I know it.
"She looks older than her chronological age."
One of these concepts is what we base a legal system's punishment concept around.
The other is something that a judge said that is absolutely awful.
But it's kinda hard to tell the difference huh?
I would say this is a fairly good defense against the paralyzed kid's inevitable civil suit
the only problem with it is our god damn juries have sympathy for white male youths who are paralyzed from someone else's negligence+, even if they were on the same level of negligence+
Now if the passenger was sober and the driver drunk it would be on another order of difficulty...
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
In this scenario the passenger should be charged with some sort good Samaritan law violation or aiding and abetting.
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Make everybody watch the Wire
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One thing to point out on this point is that people with severe enough drinking problems can have quite a lot to drink and still feel normal. They are absolutely impaired, but they might feel totally fine to get in a car and drive. Not that they are not fully responsible for getting behind the wheel, but just a distinction to make.
even then he couldn't find his shoes
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
Like for instance a ten year old accidentally discharging a weapon that hits someone cannot likely have any fucking clue. But a sixteen year old for instance drunk driving and killing people I would say probably has a pretty well formed idea of what can happen; the concept of death; personal responsibility to some degree.
That being said I know almost zero about this case in particular.
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where the wrong details are getting emphasized, the facts of the case are getting ignored, and the media is riling people up for the sake of riling people up
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