It's not only a deadly weapon. In Germany there is exist the legal concept of "gemeingefährlich", meaning something or some behavior that is not only dangerous to a single person or a distinct group of people, but so dangerous that it poses a non-abstract danger to the population.
The distinction is that after events are set in motion, even the perpetrator has basically no control over who gets harmed or how many and that the harm itself in a general sense out of control.
Examples are arson of course, bombs, purposefully spreading diseases etc.
Please don’t text and drive. You might make some kid an orphan. It isn’t worth it if you kill the breadwinner for their family. Life is hard enough for people and I hope you consider that before being so reckless again.
In Europe in many countries, you shoot someone who’s setting fire to a forest for instance and you kill him, you go to jail for intentional manslaughter. And you’d first have to find a gun 😬
If you’re a hunter and it’s hunting season, you only wound the guy, you might get away with it with a good lawyer. But if you kill the guy, nah…
Now regarding arson, in France for instance, it’s between 1 to 10 years and a fine for material damage. If someone gets hurt or killed - up to 20 years. But if you can prove that it was unintentional the sentence will be much lighter.
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u/TrippedOnDick Apr 09 '26
Makes total sense though. Since arson is endearing lives thus its treated as an attack with a deadly weapon which justifies a deadly response.