A van driver who killed a cyclist after failing to see him on the road, despite the 54-year-old riding with two rear lights, has been handed a suspended 10-month prison sentence.Graham Nash was riding his bike on a single carriageway section of the A65 Settle bypass in Craven, North Yorkshire on 6 August 2024, when ... Read more
You are contradicting yourself. You cannot accidentally murder someone. Murder is intentional, premeditated homicide. If it is an accident, it is by definition not murder. If it was intentional, it was by definition not an accident.
Yeah, but you’re in one of the most hyperbolic communities on Lemmy, why are you expecting level-headedness? In here, every fender bender is a violent assault.
You can say “slaughter” but “murder” means something specific and this isn’t it.
I mean could be intentional. The best way to murder someone in the us is to accidentally run them over.
You are contradicting yourself. You cannot accidentally murder someone. Murder is intentional, premeditated homicide. If it is an accident, it is by definition not murder. If it was intentional, it was by definition not an accident.
You are not reading properly. They are saying that you pretend it was an accident. Jesus.
Eh, I hear you, but here in FuckCars, the mens rea is driving two tons of lethal metal, mistakes are on you buddy.
Which is manslaughter, not murder. Hysterical intentional misuse of the language does no-one favours.
Yeah, but you’re in one of the most hyperbolic communities on Lemmy, why are you expecting level-headedness? In here, every fender bender is a violent assault.
You’re saying this on a post about someone who literally died