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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1064526" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>That is a good article and Harper's law does immediately beg the question why a punishment should be changed based on someone's profession. Granted there are already exceptions based on professions when a person is acting in the capacity of that profession (eg soldiers and police use of force), this does murky the waters. Why should it not be expanded to cover other professions? How about if someone shoves and old person and causes their death, is that not every bit as heinous? What about teachers and carers? If I had been pulled along by that vehicle as an engineer, would there be arguments that manslaughter of engineers should get different treatment?</p><p></p><p>This is a populist move from a populist government catering to the Mail readers belief that putting lots of people in prison for extended periods of time actually works as any sort of deterrence.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 1064526, member: 56232"] That is a good article and Harper's law does immediately beg the question why a punishment should be changed based on someone's profession. Granted there are already exceptions based on professions when a person is acting in the capacity of that profession (eg soldiers and police use of force), this does murky the waters. Why should it not be expanded to cover other professions? How about if someone shoves and old person and causes their death, is that not every bit as heinous? What about teachers and carers? If I had been pulled along by that vehicle as an engineer, would there be arguments that manslaughter of engineers should get different treatment? This is a populist move from a populist government catering to the Mail readers belief that putting lots of people in prison for extended periods of time actually works as any sort of deterrence. [/QUOTE]
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