• kautau@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Which definitely shouldn’t be murder, but manslaughter makes sense. Your unethical actions non-deliberately caused someone’s death

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      3 days ago

      Isn’t that textbook definition of (negligent) manslaughter in civilised countries? You did something that resulted in the death of someone, but it was not your intention to do so and it you could not reasonably assume that your actions would kill someone?

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      isn’t the difference here supposed to be the level of danger/lethality/intent?

      like if you burn someone’s house down with them inside, vs quietly breaking in to steal shit. if you burn down a house that probably has people in it, that’s murder even if it wasn’t 100% intentional, you should have known that was a likely outcome