J. Chisholm wrote:

The charge should be on the nature of the driving not the consequences
of your actions or missactions

Discuss

I tend to agree. Neither the law though, nor justice, is based on that
simple logic. Emotions, the victims' need for retribution, deterrence,
punishment and public (the tabloid press) mob-rule instincts and
tendencies are taken into account.

Attempted murder is another obvious anomaly. The charge only results if
the victim, whom the assailant fully intended to kill, and left the
scene convinced he had achieved his objective, as a result of some fluke
of circumstances - a lucky encounter with a passing paramedic, the
concrete block chained to his leg hasn't cured and dissolves off, or
whatever, somehow survives and makes a miraculous recovery.

Manslaughter is another. There was either an intention to kill, or
there wasn't.

Recklessness, negligence, or some other failure to exercise full care as
to whether someone is killed or injured or not, should not be treated
less seriously because, by some lucky chance, no-one was hurt.

Using a car reckless as to the consequences, past a school, or wherever
should always be treated the same, and under the same law as using
anything else (chainsaw, shotgun, fists, ...) - as if all those who
could have been killed or injured were killed or injured.

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Matt B