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

[DaleCooper]

Drunk driving is not much better than murder, in my opinion.

[DaleCooper]

Drunk driving is not much better than murder, in my opinion.

Being reckless with the (fairly low) possibility that someone could be unintentionally killed or seriously injured is the same as intentionally killing someone?

Lots of people have driven drunk and hurt nobody.

Yes

[DaleCooper]

Drunk driving is not much better than murder, in my opinion.

Being reckless with the (fairly low) possibility that someone could be unintentionally killed or seriously injured is the same as intentionally killing someone?

Lots of people have driven drunk and hurt nobody.

Yes

Do you extend that to all types of recklessness? Why should something with only the possibility of a bad thing happening be viewed the same way?

I don't care to articulate any logical explanation for it, it's how I feel. I despise drunks to begin with, so once they start risking other people's lives I lose what little tolerance I had for them in the first place.

[DaleCooper]

Prison is such a severe punishment (especially these days) that there is very little reason to even bother living afterward, so I think that's enough punishment for any crime. The problem with the government introducing payments into the equation is that it will almost certainly lead to people's ability to pay being taken into account when sentencing, which will ultimately just result in harsher punishments for poor people.

[DaleCooper]

There's also something really disturbing about the state ordering restitution over a period of time. I get that we force a lot of criminals to pay money they often don't have to victims, but how often does the court demand that a criminal be beholden to a private citizen for potentially 18 years? That seems really bizarre to me.

I'm also frustrated by the fact that instead of using its power to try and eradicate drunk driving, they're making some virtue signal crap like this that won't even help many orphans because a lot of these drunk drivers don't have the money to pay all this child support. It's a joke and it's pathetic that so many people here are falling for it.