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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
the finetuning definitions of legal terminology assure that ppl can be punished according to the ammount of criminal energy put into an action they made and not according to the outcome.
from your point of view, having killed 20 people in an cold-blooded shooting, and heving caused their dead by e.g. insufficient maintenance of a vehicle would deserve the same penalty because of the outcome: 20 dead human beings. 
are you sure that you want a poenal system according to Hammurabi? |
So from YOUR point of view, BP shouldn't be penalized for destroying an entire ecosystem, because the oil spill was negligence and an accident, and not intentional?
We can make these examples as crazy as we want but we stray a long ways from the original question.
