Quote Originally Posted by Monty92 View Post
On a related note, people generally speaking are weird when it comes to ethics. If someone moderately drink drives and gets away with it, they'll be considered little more than naughty scamps. yet if someone moderately drink drives and kills a kid, the opprobrium goes through the roof. Why? The 'crimes' were identical on a moral level.
Because we measure both outcome and intent. Hence attempted murder is a lesser offence than murder.

In a moral sense you are right, there is little difference. You may drive home completely ****faced but without incident. Another night you may tip slightly over the limit and kill a child through no real fault of your own.

The former is a far worse offence but the latter involves a dead kid.