Penelope · 7 answers · 3y

Should you get a reduced sentence if you were drunk when you committed a crime?

IMO, no. If getting drunk causes you to be more likely to commit crimes, then the responsibility simply must be shifted toward not getting drunk. Otherwise it's not fair and an ordinate number of drinking-related crimes will be committed and people will be hurt. (Note that I don't think any "punishment" should be about retribution in the first place, so it's not like it matters whether it was the perpetrator's "fault" or not in terms of how heinous they are or whatever. It should only matter what their chances of doing it again are, or how much the law's enforcement deters everybody else from doing it..)

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