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Re:Slow-motion replays can distort criminal responsibility by kevin_b_er on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @11:35AM (#12210702)
It doesn't even have to be a killing.

The slow motion makes it look like actions were deliberate instead of spontaneous. So it makes it look like a planned action. If the defendant deliberately did it, they must be pretty terrible, right? Guilty of a worse crime.

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Re:Slow-motion replays can distort criminal responsibility by jsprogrammer on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @03:28PM (#12212607)
How often does spontaneous violence occur? If it looks like actions were deliberate and planned, wouldn't you need some other reasoning to believe that they weren't?
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Re:Slow-motion replays can distort criminal responsibility by syk26 on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @09:10AM (#12217652)
Right, but the dangerous part is that slow motion biases our judgement so that we ultimately determine an action was deliberate and planned.
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