“This was not reckless driving. This was murder,” the judge said before she read out Mackenzie Shirilla's verdict Monday afternoon.

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[+] -32 points 3 years ago (6 children)

Sounds more like a suicide/self harm thing to me.

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  • [–] 74 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    When you include an unconsenting person in the attempt, it is also murder.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Not a lawyer, but even if they consent isn't it murder?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    You can't consent to murder, the best you could do is indemnify someone/an organisation against accidental death.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    You can't consent to murder

    Genuine question - why not? If someone wants to be murdered, for whatever reason, would that not be them consenting?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago*

    There are cases of mutual murderer/suicide pacts where there's shared responsibility and actions taken by each party but that wouldn't have been possible when she was the only one in control of the car. Even if the boyfriend was suicidal, and there's no reason to think he was from this article, the other passenger clearly wasn't. IANAL either but I think that's what the above comment was trying to get at.

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  • [–] 41 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It sounds much more like an abusive relationship. She was trying to punish him, regardless of the risk to herself.

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  • [+] -46 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    ...no, no, no... only WOMEN can be in abusive relationships.

    At least that is the utter bullshit you would believe if you listened to the feminist/white knight rhetoric out there.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    This would have been better if you left it untyped.

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  • [+] -22 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Clearly you don't want to hear the truth of the general bias of the internet and society as a whole.

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  • [+] 23 points 3 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)
  • [+] -30 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    This is why suicidal people are dangerous, it's a relatively small change from killing yourself, to killing others.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    This is why pastry chefs are dangerous, it's a relatively small change from baking your bread, to baking others.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    @ryathal @agressivelyPassive

    Have suicidal ideation is in no way, shape or form the same as being the perpetrator of a murder-suicide. Neither is being suicidal a lead-in to becoming a murderer.

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    As such, it is clear that suicides tend to have high levels of aggressive–destructive impulsive behaviours, generally referred to as impulsive–aggressive behaviours. These have been operationally defined in suicide studies as a tendency to react with animosity or overt hostility without consideration to possible consequences, when piqued or under stress.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1277022/

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago*

    Did you read anything else in that paper...? The words around that statement? Even the abstract?

    Or did you google what you wanted to see and post the result, because that paper is not about people harming others whilst attempting suicide. It is barely tangentially about that.

    (it's about the impact of aggressive-impulsive tendencies on the suicide...r themselves)

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    No there may be a small chance of collateral damage, such as this case. But suicidal thinking does not make you think of killing others. You're clearly lucky enough to have never had suicidal ideation, but it never comes near the kind of thoughts that want to kill others

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  • [+] -15 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It changes when it comes to acting. If you have the gun to your head, shooting someone telling you to stop is also highly likely.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Let's see some stats on that one because being an abusive murder is a lot different than suicidality.

    There is no correlation between her wanting to kill people and her potential suicidality. They just coincidentally line up in this case.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I have a relative who was recently given a DUI.

    They went to the store, sober, and bought a handle of vodka (1.75 liters) consumed the vast majority, and drove around.

    He wanted to die in a head on collision. Selfish fuck.

    I don't have a problem with people having the freedom to decide enough is enough, but don't harm others in the process, at least more so than the death would cause. Especially innocent unrelated people.

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