Originally Posted by
Mr. Hairy Legs
Prison or no, this will gnaw at his conscience till the day he dies, getting worse every year. A prison term pales in comparison to this punishment.
Pray tell, what makes you so sure the event will gnaw at his conscience**********
Originally Posted by
dougmc
Um, while that might be true for a few, I don't think it's true for most.
Most will be upset about what happened, but if they got away with it, they'll put it out of their mind and not really think about it any more after a while, and that usually takes less than a year.
Unfortunately, that belief you expressed seems to come up a lot when somebody kills somebody else in a traffic collision ... the judge or jury thinks that their guilt is sufficient punishment, so they punish lightly or not at all. When the reality is ... most people get over it and do so quickly. Even people who we think are generally "good" -- after all, guilt has its place, but after a while it doesn't accomplish anything and people just let it go eventually.
+1