system
A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
To encourage people not to pick up a gun without having their brain engaged.
gpt
I agree that people should be encouraged to do that, but that doesn't make this logical. Or, put in another way, why should the sentence be *lesser* if the manslaughter didn't happen with a gun? It's the same thing. If you have your brain disengaged while driving a truck instead of handling a gun, and kill someone, why would the maximum sentence of that be several times lower than the minimum sentence for if you did it with a gun? Whether you raise or lower the sentence limits, it should be the same.

The general practice of the judge determining the length of the sentence based on the circumstances is fine. But why have these very specific laws that specify lengths of sentences based on this? Just let it be at the discretion of the judge. I'm sure that it's obvious that certain incidents can be more or less aggravating based on many specific circumstances, whether performed with a gun or not.