Source: Common Dreams
by Mike Lofgren
“Let’s suppose someone decides it would be a good idea to drive 80 miles per hour through a school zone while the amber lights are flashing. If something bad happens, as it would be likely to, and he kills one or more children, how would the law treat it? He could tell the court that he sincerely ‘didn’t mean’ to kill anyone, but that wouldn’t exonerate him. The court would consider the case at minimum as vehicular homicide, and more likely, given the aggravating circumstance of lethal speed in a school zone, it might well result in conviction for aggravated murder. … If someone commits a reckless act whose adverse consequences are clearly foreseeable, then for all practical purposes, that person willed the consequences. This principle (who wills the means wills the ends) is applicable in law, but should also be valid in everyday life.” (05/13/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/republicans-want-you-to-die