Punishment too light?

[Jman888]

What i mean is, an experienced driver might cross a double-white line when the adjacent lane is empty or near empty.

True tat it's an offence but it didn't cause harm or damage to anyone.

At the end of the day, most ppl want to see justice served. And in this case, many ppl feel tat justice wasn't served, regardless of what the law says (becos there are a set of laws in the common ppl's minds, remember tat, 公道自在人心)

 

 

sad to say the written law is not for the public eyes......

 

the victim's family can claim from the driver or even the taxi driver........ in US you may sue anything you can think of because the lorry driver may only be 60% responsible (just as an example!)

 

assume the lorry driver lost his job, went into depression, got drunk and end up with a hooker who pass HIV to him, he got mad and had a fight and was chase out on the road and run over by a 20 tonner!

 

what a happy ending.......... but does the public get to know all this?? 公道自在人心 ??

[Timex1441]

Ahahahan committed it SAFELY enough. Easily said until that 1 day u happen to be suay.

That lorry dude probably did it SAFELY enough the other 9 times he broke the traffic rules,

10th time suay lo.

 

See what I mean? Its not that u all never bloody commit the same offense that he did, u are all just lucky.

So u ride your lucky and stand there throwing stones on someone down on his lucky, baying for his blood.

 

To be honest, I do not care about how long the TS gets, what irked me to get involved with this thread in the first

place is the hypocrisy of people like you.

 

The deterence effect of any sentencing is always relative to the "perceived" severity of the offence.

Bringing Drugs in SG are bad, killing people are bad. If I do it, OH NOES I GET HANGED.

Therefore most normal people wont do it, it is an effective deterrant (the death sentence)

 

In the case of the lorry driver, u think if u all got what u want and he went to jail, its gonna stop others from breaking

these very same laws like double white lines?

 

Perception of "small" violations like these is that: I can do it, I just be a little bit more careful, nothing will happen la"

Jailing the guy or giving him the maximum sentence will not cause anyone to stop doing it.

 

U r entitled to ur opinion, just like i am entitled to mine.

I actually feel tat if there's enough publicity on a particular case where the convicted person was handed a heavy punishment, it CAN be a deterrent.