Motorcyclist who failed drug test jailed for causing crash which left cyclist needing leg amputated

Whilst I understand your anger, I don't think the death penalty is really appropriate in this situation (or ever).

I struggle to see what people like this contribute to society and they are so detrimental to it in so many ways. Hes also at the age where he isn't going to change is he. I may be wrong but I imagine he has been a scumbag for a long time and will continue to be. 

What sort of monster can do this to another human being and have no remorse. Can worry more about their bike than the clear carnage he has wrough on another humans body. He even thought she was dead and didn't seem to care.  

If people want to wreck their own lives then crack on. When you cause so much damage to someone elses my sympathy evaporates quite quickly. 

mctrials23 wrote:

I struggle to see what people like this contribute to society and they are so detrimental to it in so many ways. Hes also at the age where he isn't going to change is he. I may be wrong but I imagine he has been a scumbag for a long time and will continue to be. 

What sort of monster can do this to another human being and have no remorse. Can worry more about their bike than the clear carnage he has wrough on another humans body. He even thought she was dead and didn't seem to care.  

If people want to wreck their own lives then crack on. When you cause so much damage to someone elses my sympathy evaporates quite quickly. 

To be even-handed, this bloke has caused a lot less harm to society than e.g. bankers. At least his behaviour isn't condoned and even celebrated by society.

There is plenty of merit to the banking system and it has brought huge amounts of wealth to the UK. I'm not saying that its not inhabited by some aweful sociopaths that do huge damage to society but its not all bad. People like this guy are just all bad. 

mctrials23 wrote:

There is plenty of merit to the banking system and it has brought huge amounts of wealth to the UK. I'm not saying that its not inhabited by some aweful sociopaths that do huge damage to society but its not all bad.

They made the trains run on time?

Pretty sure there's a lot more agreement than not when it comes to pointing at wrong-uns.  The idea of a general principle for locating them and putting them up against a wall though?  As AidanR says you don't want to be a part of that kind of group.  Because before long it's "if your finger itches, better to cut off your arm".

I'm not saying that he's not a deeply unpleasant human being, nor that there's a very good chance that he's a net negative for society. But would you really want to live in a society that "gets rid of" those with the wrong attitude?

I don't think that nearly killing someone and causing them to lose a leg whilst have zero remorse really comes under "the wrong attitude". I just struggle to see how the average, law abiding citizen should have to run the constant risk of running into these people at the wrong time and their lives being utterly ruined whilse these scumbags get a slap on the wrist when their consistently awful behaviour finally ends in tragedy. 

If if was still within his licence period presumably he could be recalled.  (I'm not sure what the advice is now though, what with prisons being overfull [as IIRC they have been almost my entire life] ).

Otherwise ... yes, unless we get some kind of punishment / administrative action on the books for driving while banned then it will remain "if you do this again we will be forced to tell you not to do it again, again".

Replace car/motorbike keys with a card reader that scans your licence, job done.

Yeah with how relatively inexpensively this could be implemented I don't know why it never gets any traction. You could include a breathaliser function for anyone that's been caught for drink driving. Considering how many people are killed on the road every day you'd think something that made people have to think a little before they jumped in their car would be a good thing.