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Why the same bad choice can bring different punishment

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If you drive home drunk and hit a tree, you get a slap on the wrist and a ruined bumper. If you drive home drunk and hit a pedestrian, you go to prison for life. Your awful choice was exactly the same in both cases, but society judges your morality entirely based on the random luck of who happened to be crossing the street.

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