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[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 15 hours ago

but some of them choose to become murderers

[-] batmaniam@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago

No, all of them did. Through action or inaction. So again, if it was in service of a better tomorrow so be it, but it is what it is.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 15 hours ago

you can't murder through inaction, unless words don't mean anything.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 1 points 14 hours ago

If the risk of death or bodily harm is great enough, ignoring it demonstrates a "depraved indifference" to human life and the resulting death is considered to have been committed with malice aforethought.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago

In United States law, depraved-heart murder, also known as depraved-indifference murder, is a type of murder where an individual acts with a "depraved indifference" to human life and where such acts result in a death, despite that individual not explicitly intending to kill. In a depraved-heart murder, defendants commit an act even though they know their act runs an unusually high risk of causing death or serious bodily harm to a person. If the risk of death or bodily harm is great enough, ignoring it demonstrates a "depraved indifference" to human life and the resulting death is considered to have been committed with malice aforethought.

why wouldn't you show the whole paragraph?

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago
[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 1 points 14 hours ago

I don’t understand how can it be cherry-picking when it is a reply to a comment, which stated in it’s entirety

you can't murder through inaction, unless words don't mean anything.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago

the full definition requires an act. you cherry picked one ambiguously worded section.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 1 points 14 hours ago

Summaries are by definition ambiguous. They’re quick overviews of a subject, not in-depth analysis. If I wanted to cherry pick like a troll, I wouldn’t have linked to a source, which itself has footnotes.

As far as US law is concerned, it is entirely possible to murder through inaction. That is my only point.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago

that's not what your source says.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 1 points 14 hours ago

We understand English differently. There’s no point in continuing this conversation.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago
[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 1 points 14 hours ago

Thanks. You too!

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago

It ["depraved heart" murder] is the form [of murder] that establishes that the wilful doing of a dangerous and reckless act with wanton indifference to the consequences and perils involved is just as blameworthy, and just as worthy of punishment, when the harmful result ensues as is the express intent to kill itself. This highly blameworthy state of mind is not one of mere negligence... It is not merely one even of gross criminal negligence... It involves rather the deliberate perpetration of a knowingly dangerous act with reckless and wanton unconcern and indifference as to whether anyone is harmed or not.

[-] batmaniam@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Murder, maybe not, but "allow to die through in-action" sure can.

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