Karma Or Sad ?

[Canary42]

I bet the Bring Back Capital Punishment Brigade get a lot of smug satisfaction out of this.

Snowflakes like myself however find it desperately desperately sad for both victims.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-44376942

[emmie]

no winners at all, i feel sorry for all concerned,

[murraymints]

Sad..Very sad

[ummmm]

Extremely sad.

[Sqad]

Tragic on both sides.

[youngmafbog]

What a strange OP.

Looks like it's just a fishing trip for an argument to me.

[naomi24]

ymb, I agree. The idea that anyone would welcome the death penalty in this instance is, in itself, sad.

[New Judge]

I think it misplaced to link this to Capital Punishment. As has been said, I doubt anybody here would advocate the death penalty for her crime.

An interesting point which always intrigues me is this: the victim, fortuitously, did not die. But he could have done and had he done so the events which caused it (the driver's drunk driving) would have been identical. So she was punished more leniently not for her actions, but for the results.

[youngmafbog]

Isn't that ever the case though NJ?

[andy-hughes]

It looks as though the premise of the thread was that the convicted driver has died, and that could be seen as a form of 'justice' for the collision victim.

It falls down because the collision victim did not die from his injuries, so the entire thrust of the argument is lost.

[scooping]

What the heck has it got to do with capital punishment. Sorry she made a terrible mistake and sorry she took her own life.

[andy-hughes]

scooping - // What the heck has it got to do with capital punishment. //

Nothing - as my post explained.

[naomi24]

The OP appears to have no conception of the difference between cold-blooded murder and lesser offences.

[naomi24]

Spath, I've read the OP. It's denigrating those who would reintroduce capital punishment - not something I believe many, if any, of them would advocate in these particular circumstances.

[andy-hughes]

spath - // if you read the OP, it is slating the BBCPB...

And highlighting how sad it is for both parties.

If this WAS a stage for argument, none would be there to had because views are clearly stated. Nothing to argue...

The OP is highlighting the two possible views //

I have read your assessemt of the OP, and find myself in disagreement - Canary finds it 'desperately desperately sad for both victims' - whereas in fact, only one is a 'victim' in the true sense of the word.

The teenager knocked down is an innocent victim of irresponsible behaviour, the driver has died for reasons not specified, and therefore cannot be a 'victim' in that sense.

Add to the fact that the teenager is not dead, and the driver is dead, and you lose what remaining tenuous link there may have ever been made between them.

As I said, the Op falls down because the premise on which is it based is factually inaccurate.

[hereIam]

Canary - what the hell are you on about ??? Feeling self righteous today are you ...

[andy-hughes]

spath - // I think the driver is a victim of death //

I have absolutely no idea what that means.

Everyone who has lived or will ever live, is going to be a 'victim of death' - I suggest that your statement is meaningless.