• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    the concept is okay, even good, I would say. if somebody does as a direct consequence of your actions, well, you murdered them — but that requires some nuance and work to determine how “direct”.

    but the implementation, oh boy, that’s classic police state america

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        3 days ago

        nah that’s separate, more like negligence

        difference being (as I understand it) that manslaughter is negligence outside of criminal actions, and felony murder is manslaughter while committing a crime