Killing someone over a word is totally ok

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[–]ClassroomPast6178 13 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Nope. Should be manslaughter, probably didn’t intend to kill the man but he did. The judge can take the racial abuse into consideration when he is considering mitigating circumstances for sentencing purposes.

However, if the guy has made statements about how he would kill anyone who calls him that word, then that’s probably good enough to prove intent and that’s murder, baby.

Don’t say shit about what you plan to do, if there’s any chance you could be in court for doing that shit in future.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah the poll is poorly worded. There's some number of people who probably answered not guilty with this in mind.

[–]LyingSpirit472 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

But there's likely some number of people who would have said not guilty even if the worker intended for the punch to kill the customer and punched the guy out for no reason, solely because he wanted to punch out and delete a white person.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ok but it's on the question and the person who asked the question to be more clear otherwise each person interprets the question differently and also each person reading the results can interpret it differently. There are 2 layers of ambiguity.