Drunk drivers in Texas who kill parents of a child will now be required to pay child support

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

https://www.sacurrent.com/news/drunk-drivers-in-texas-who-kill-a-parents-of-a-child-will-now-be-required-to-pay-child-support-31969419

This is stupid tbh. I think we had a thread about this as a hypothetical issue a while back.

I don't have any sympathy for drunk drivers, but I don't see why a drunk driver who happens to kill two parents should be punished more harshly than a drunk driver who kills two elderly people, two college students, two parents whose children are all adults. All drunk driving is bad.

Well a drunk driver who kills someone even someone with no children, or even severely injures someone is punished far more severely than a drunk driver who kills or injures no one.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

This is not something you have to worry about if you simply avoid driving drunk.

Something which is incredibly easy to do. I remember an ad in my school student paper for a taxi company that said "How would you like to arrive?" with then drawings of an ambulance, a police car, and a taxi. And Lyft and Uber means that now you don't even need to deal with the annoyance of taxi companies.