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Exactly what I thought. I hate cars but most car fatalities are accidental not intentional.
If we started charging car company executives with murder when people were killed on the road, we might get somewhere with reducing the number of vehicles.
Is it ? Using that logic, a drunk driver killing somone is an accident.
The continued city design of enshrining cars as the primary mode of transport is intentional, people voting for politcans who are car brained is intentional, driving a car knowing there is a not insignificant risk of killing or hurting somone is intentional. Knowing this, a traffic death is really just manslaughter
Back in the 70s the Dutch rioted to remove cars from streets becase they were "accidentally" killing children, that's the appropriate response to deaths of chikdren.
I hear you. Are the people at fault? Most definitely. Did they have the intent to kill? Mostly no; most people don't think of consequences at all.
I was comparing to murder though. Something where you are intentionally try to hurt someone
Feels comparable to needless deaths due to health insurance. A special kind of negligence
Or at the very least owners of huge trucks. I have to drive super aggressively in my Miata cause I know half those mfers aren't paying attention and even if they were, can't see me in a lot of instances.