Time to give Martinus an aneurysm

[Martinus]

With random crime a lot more people are terrorized.

I thought about it after I made my post and edited my post to address this.

Essentially, while we also penalize people for unintended harm caused by their actions, we do penalize them harsher if they seek to cause that harm intentionally.

[The Brain]

If there is an element of terrorism then just use terrorist laws on them then.

[Martinus]

Incidentally, different penalization of murder, depending on motives, is nothing new.

Many legal systems have a concept of a "crime of passion", which is not the same as "temporary insanity" (the latter getting your off the hook), but involving a smaller penalty if the crime is inspired by a passionate feeling of vengeance for something the victim did.

In the Polish criminal code, for example, we have the so-called "euthanatic murder", which is essentially an illegal euthanasia - this is for all purposes murder (you are intentionally killing the victim) but the penalty is lower, because the motive is "profound sympathy for the victim's suffering or the victim's request".

[DontSayBanana]

Incidentally, different penalization of murder, depending on motives, is nothing new.

Many legal systems have a concept of a "crime of passion", which is not the same as "temporary insanity" (the latter getting your off the hook), but involving a smaller penalty if the crime is inspired by a passionate feeling of vengeance for something the victim did.

In the Polish criminal code, for example, we have the so-called "euthanatic murder", which is essentially an illegal euthanasia - this is for all purposes murder (you are intentionally killing the victim) but the penalty is lower, because the motive is "profound sympathy for the victim's suffering or the victim's request".

Interesting; in the US, we have first, second, and third-degree murder. Crimes of passion typically fall under murder in the second degree, while the first degree is reserved for cases involving premeditation, where mens rea can be established.