RE: Drunk Driver kills family of 4, content warning
January 5, 2016 at 6:05 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2016 at 6:05 pm by Excited Penguin.)
(January 5, 2016 at 6:01 pm)*Deidre* Wrote:(January 5, 2016 at 5:56 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: impaired- affected by alcohol or drugs to the extent of losing control over one's faculties or behavior
It does excuse the person, to a certain extent. It's not like they kill people deliberately. It does not excuse the fact that they consumed alcohol or drugs before driving, of course, but it's not the same as intentionally driving someone over with your car.
Yea, that's true. I don't like that word ''impaired'' though to define this. That's just me and my semantics.
The thing is when I read stories like this, this woman knew the consequences, and no...she didn't 'set out' to kill anyone, but to drive your car under the influence of alcohol, it shows a gross lack of concern for others, if nothing else. But, in a sense that could be how addicted she may be to alcohol. It's a sad story for her, too, to have to live with what she's done.
Let's say she wasn't that addicted to it, but simply made a bad decision. Now instead of blaming her for it, did you give some thought as to maybe what drove her to ultimately make that decision at that moment in her life? Do you know about all of the circumstances that led up to it? If you did know about them, can you imagine you would still want to blame her? What would you do if you were her, with all the same experiences, genes, and so on? Could you still blame her then?
