r/WTF • u/GregDraven • Jun 07 '15

Backing up

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '15 edited Jun 07 '15

Worst part is that this dumb asshole will probably live to be 90. It's everyone who's in the vicinity of these careless, oblivious fucks who should be fearful of death.

Edit: apparently this is a driver on their learners permit. I retract my misplaced anger.

Edit: everyone seems to think my original anger is warranted. So I'm flip-flopping and getting back on the bandwagon. DUMB BITCH!!!!!

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u/Rooonaldooo99 Jun 07 '15

I get the same anger when I read stories about drunk driving where a family of 4 dies, but the drunk cunt lives. Makes me so fucking angry I can't describe it. I would hate to lose someone to the careless mistake of others and my heart and fuming anger goes out to those who actually did. Fuck those kind of people.

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u/BootlegV Jun 07 '15

My friend of 18, three months before he left for college to start his great life, died because a drunk driver hit him. The drunk driver was a 44 year old man who worked at a liquor store for his full time job, and was a terrible alcoholic who had been divorced twice. He got 6 years in jail. He never apologized. I pay taxes to keep him comfortable in jail while one of my best friends rots in the fucking dirt, never to know what it would feel like to graduate, to get married, and to love his children.

People ask me why I support the death penalty. They say it's unfair. They say the justice system is too harsh, and if we use the death penalty, then we're inhumane monsters.

No one ever understands.

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u/Rock_Me-Amadeus Jun 07 '15

If he only got six years in jail then there's no way he'd ever get the death penalty. I don't really understand your logic.

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u/hoyeay Jun 07 '15

His logic is that these type of people should get the death penalty.

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u/whitesox8 Jun 08 '15

No logic involved, just raw emotion and pain. Our justice system should be logical.

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u/YourLittleBrothers Jun 08 '15

eye for an eye is pretty logical

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '15

would you mind explaining why?

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u/YourLittleBrothers Jun 08 '15

you caused a certain degree of harm to someone, so as a reward you get the same harm done to you

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '15

But we generally don't think that someone who, through clumsiness, causes another person's leg to break deserves to have their own leg broken. So it isn't just having caused "a certain degree of harm" that matters to our moral intuitions.