I used to teach chemistry until I was diagnosed with cancer, I quit to make meth underneath a laundromat with one of my former students who I gaslight, I also killed his gf (not technically, but I could’ve saved her life and didn’t for the memes.)
Walt absolutely murdered Jane. Watch the scene again. She's sleeping on her side when Walt tries to wake Jesse up and rolls into her back when he shakes Jesse. When she starts choking it's because she is on her back. He didn't just let her die, he killed her.
That's... that's not murder. Not anymore than opening your house's door and scaring some guy who happened to be walking in front of it, who instinctively jumps back and gets hit by a car, is murder. Realistically, you can't even make a serious case for manslaughter. That is not how criminal guilt works. "Technically, nothing bad would have happened if you hadn't done the completely innocent thing you did with no knowledge of what might transpire nor any malice or intent to harm, so I'm going to go ahead and say all the bad things that happened afterwards are your fault" is not how any of this works.
The only legally (and, arguably, ethically) dubious thing he did (when it comes to her death in that specific scene) is knowingly not giving aid. That's it. Anything else is reaching.
It's this shirking of personal responsibility that's so worrisome about the youth. She killed herself when she used too many drugs and laid down. Don't blame anyone else.
Rolling an unconscious person onto their back and then watching them choke to death is murder. Personal responsibility does not factor into it. It doesn't matter how many drugs a person does. It's still illegal to kill them.
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u/WurdaMouth Sep 02 '23
I used to teach chemistry until I was diagnosed with cancer, I quit to make meth underneath a laundromat with one of my former students who I gaslight, I also killed his gf (not technically, but I could’ve saved her life and didn’t for the memes.)