Rausch
I found this in the Rhein-Neckar Zeitung, 'het lokale sufferdje', which I receive unrequestedly at random times:
The latter option is interesting in face of the fact that at present, Germany is being ruled by the große Koalition, consisting of the two natural opponents SPD and CDU, which according to the public opinion is not doing much in general, and makes a mess of what it is doing.
Rausch nicht mehr strafmildernd
i.e., being drunk is no longer an excuse for breaking the law. What? No longer? No, indeed, no longer. Which indeed seems to imply that hitherto, it was... Of course I am not a lawyer, and I don't know anything about German law at all, but logic tells me that either, there must have been a very funny law in force, or the parliament has nothing better to do than passing pointless laws...The latter option is interesting in face of the fact that at present, Germany is being ruled by the große Koalition, consisting of the two natural opponents SPD and CDU, which according to the public opinion is not doing much in general, and makes a mess of what it is doing.
posted by Olivier at 4:21 PM
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It is all not that funny... There is such a thing as a criminal intent, required in most cases to be fully responsible for a crime. Being drunk is used at least as a mitigating factor, cause drunk people can easily claim not to have intended to do what they did. In England it is very much an excuse.
May be true... I didn't think of that. If you take it into the criminal terrain, it's different, of course. I was thinking of traffic rules and such.
But still: there is also a point to saying that if being drunk makes people commit criminal acts, they should take care not to get drunk, or not without someone keeping them in check; they are legally responsible for themselves, after all. Or aren't they?
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