Wed Sep 3 12:48:14 1997
- Message No. 1375
From: Jorn Ronnow
Subject: Re: SHIT!
At 13:29 97-09-02 +0200, Hans wrote:
>>At 08:38 μμ 31/8/1997 +0200, Katsanos wrote:
>>2: the people that would introduce it would have figured out what to do with
>>the situation where someone drinks and then drives a car that is not his (a
>>few days ago a guy was caught and the car was confiscated, only prooblem was
>>that he had borought the car from his sister who is a nun and the car
>>belonged to the church!!!!).
>>
>
>I understand your point but it is not the law that is unfair, it is the
>brother was not carefull with the car that of his sister. If you borrow
>something you have to be carefull with it. It is not yours. If it is your
>own car you you can do with it what you want. If I borrow your AT, you make
>sure that you get it back. If I get caught and the AT is confiscated then I
>have to get you a similar one. Or else you would kill me, right ?
>
>These are just things that will pass. If people are used to the rule then
>they will not lend their cars to people who are not reponsible enough to
>drive them.
Think of this law in a bigger perspective: As you can see, in this case it
punishes the person who lends the car, not the person who drives drunk. So,
if the brother would have used the car to kill somebody, would it have been
fair to execute the nun for murder? (=Misjudging her brothers intent with
the car.)
Of course not! If there were a punishment for misjudging somebodys intent
with a car, then the nun could be sentenced to it ("helping somebody to
drink and drive"), but in this case the nun (or the church) was punished
for drunken driving. A crime of which she was innocent.
I think her brother, who seems to go unpunished, should spend a few months
in prison.
Keep sliding
-Jorn
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