• @WrenFeathers
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    03 hours ago

    It’s irrelevant. We’re not talking about an accident. We’re talking about an intent to kill. He had a manifesto, there are witnesses… He murdered a man.

    If it were a gun or a car. It’s irrelevant.

    I’m not getting trapped up in semantics.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 hour ago

      It’s irrelevant. We’re not talking about an accident. We’re talking about an intent to kill.

      Intent must be proved, and depending on the circumstances, can be hard or easy. Using a gun carries with it an assumption of intent - unless you’re hunting or target shooting, your intent can be assumed to not be good. With a car, there are a lot more things you could reasonably be doing, ill intent can’t be assumed.

      • @WrenFeathers
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        123 minutes ago

        Which is why it’s a shitty analogy to begin with and in bad faith to compare the two.

    • @[email protected]
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      13 hours ago

      And I wasn’t talking about this or any other specific case, just attempting to make sure that people understood the general legal concepts.

      • @WrenFeathers
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        12 hours ago

        Where there is a victim of vehicular homicide, it wouldn’t be a civil suit. So again, it’s irrelevant.

        OP compared the CEO’s murder outcome as potentially being different if he purposefully ran him over with a car. This isn’t about civil suits. It’s not about any other suits. It’s about this particular “what if” scenario where a different weapon was used.

        It’s a bad argument and a was just attempting to illustrate that.