Of course he’s probably wrong about much of that. Punishing him for it in a court, if that’s what you mean, would be illiberal and grotesque.

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ceejayoz 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Why? It’s negligent homicide.

It’s just so diffuse that it doesn’t fit in our crime model. Like polluters who shave years off an entire neighborhood’s lives via health impacts.

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baggy_trough an hour ago | parent [-]

Because an opinion can’t rise to homicide, even if it influences policy. That’s not what homicide is. Instead, it’s simply bad policy, to be punished at the ballot box.

	▲	ceejayoz an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Bad policy that needlessly kills thousands of people should be punishable outside the ballot box. If your policy of letting kindergarteners play with grenades goes bad, you go to jail.