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Originally Posted by RainMaker
I think if the negligient actions of someone leads to the death of another person, you should go to prison.
I don't think yelling out Fire should be a crime. But if you yell it out at a theater and people get trampled to death, you should be held responsible. If you are following someone around a neighborhood at night and it leads to a confrontation where you shoot the unarmed person, perhaps you should be held responsible for that too.
The idea that you can be thrown in prison for doing something negligent that leads to the death of someone is not a foreign concept.
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What was the act that actually qualifies as criminal negligence under Florida law, and not just your moral judgment? Following someone? "Negligence", as a legal term, is more of an omission than an action. Like forgetting to check the plane engine before you take off, resulting in death. It's a failure in one's responsibilities. It's not a catch-all term to criminalize the behavior of people you don't like. Unless you're OK with police and prosecutors characterizing any behavior they don't like as "negligence" on a case-by-case basis, subject to their own individual moral judgments.