I am Very hostile! He KILLED someone! And left another person in a bad way for life! So yes - I'm hostile.
I'm allowed to be judgmental. He Murdered someone. This person has a family and friends that are in pain. They deserve for me to stand up and say this was wrong. Both his victims deserve me standing up!
Yes, I have made mistakes. NO I have not killed before.
And yes life in prison for killing someone, seams very fair to me.
He didn't murder someone, he killed someone accidentally. Yes, he was grossly negligent, and yes, it is his fault that this person is dead. But he didn't plan it, he didn't want it to happen. Bad stuff always happens and his mistake was that he made something like that more likely to happen because he was drunk while driving.
But it is not murder. There are judicial distinctions for a reason - in Germany it is
bodily injury caused by negligence with fatal consequences - followed by manslaughter and than followed by murder. And Stavinski is guilty of the first one. He deserves punishment and perhaps he wasn't punished enough for his crime because of his celebrity status - but honestly, I think that a normal decent person is punished for life with a story like this.
Mimzy, I understand your incomprehension for Stavinski's crime. I am sure that you never killed someone like that. But it could always happen to you - to any of us. You can always make a mistake while driving your car, you don't have to be drunk for that. You can be absent for a few seconds, because you are thinking about something else, because you start looking for your headset to answer the phone, because you switch on the radio... Sometimes a situation can be your fault but the whole thing was so unfortunate, that you cannot be convicted of anything - but you are still responsible for the death of a human being.
All our actions have consequences and they can have fatal consequences. When I announced a few years ago that I plan to go to medschool most people were like: "Uhh, I couldn't do that, I would always be afraid of killing someone/hurting someone." and I always answered like this "Duh, I hope you know that you can always kill someone, with your car, with all your actions - you can leave a banana peel on the pavement, two hours later a 73-old woman slips because of it, she has a fractured tigh bone, has to go to the hospital, and dies 5 days after the operation of a pulmonary embolism. Basically that is the fault of that stupid banana peel."
Are you US-American? Did you vote for Bush? Congratulations, you just made yourself co-responsible for the deaths of more than a thousand US-Americans and even more Iraquis.
Didn't you vote for Bush? Well, this is pure speculation - but if Bush hadn't won the elections and you wouldn't have voted for him - all the non-Bush-voters + half of Europe could be responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands Kurdish people and Iraquis, perhaps Hussein would have started a new war down there? Who knows?
We can say that Stavinski's actions were wrong, that they had horrible consequences and we can feel with the victims. But lets try not to be holier-than-thou.
