I never hat anybody, neider sober nor tipsy, except of self defense. This is not the definition of not being stupid but of being normal. If you want to be treated like a human being behave yourself like one.

Please tell me the situation you described putted 2 M people into jail! You must have the highest "accidental death" rate of the universe.

It was an example of something innocent leading to grave consequences. Obviously it doesn't happen to 2 million people.

Friends often shove and shoulder-punch each other without it being self-defence. It's usually not even considered "hitting". But accidents do happen. Especially when substances affect people's sense of balance and floors are uneven.

Here's a much more common way to go to prison for something silly: You have a baggie of weed in your car. You roll through a stop sign. Get pulled over. Cop smells the weed. You go to jail. Oh, you just bought plenty so you can share with friends (they all pitched in). Bam, charged with intent to sell. Serious jail time.

It's really easy to go to prison for stupid stuff.[1]

In fact, on average everyone commits 3 felonies per day. --> http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527487044715045744389...

[1] Hell, as a teenager I got arrested for shoplifting something like 20 euro worth of candy. No jail, but talk about stupid reasons to get arrested.

What percentage of people are incarcerated for something like that?

I don't know. I imagine it depends a lot on factors mostly to do with how much a jury/judge likes you.

Generally we treat killing others, even if you didn't mean to, very harshly. It's very easy to get incarcerated for a crash caused while driving tipsy, for instance, especially if somebody dies.

I imagine manslaughter is one of those things where you only have to fuck up once, completely by accident, to ruin your life (and a few others' obviously) quite terribly.