Since it is apparent you have difficulty following a line of thought unless your exact wording is used, consider the following, simplified for your understanding. Your posting states :
"Incidentally, "feeling bad" was another misquotation on your part. I never used any phrase about feeling bad or hurting my feelings in my posts."
Does the following quote look familiar?

"I have been moping around the past few days feeling like the scum trash of the earth."

Sorry--I just assumed that feeling like scum trash meant "feeling badly"----then again, I wouldn't know. Please accept my abject apology while I defer to your superior knowledge of and personal experience with feeling like "scum trash of the earth"--whatever that entails. (shrug)


All this effort to point out where you think I have misquoted and then you refer to "other insults" I added? Reread. I said If I WERE going to reflect on your character, I would use words like immoral, etc. I did not say you were those things. I said I AVOIDED those things--and you reply that I CALLED you those things---which were examples of what I feel are adjectives reflecting on your character, and not just your actions. How would I have any way of knowing if you are immoral? Who comes and goes in your personal life is irrelevant to this discussion. Those adjectives were offered in contrast to the ones I used that apply to your behavior--dangerous and self-centered.

Cutting you down by contrasting you with "people like me"? My dear, there IS a difference between us and it is one of which I am proud. I have been offered the same choices in my life as have you. I am proud of the fact that I have ordered my life in such a manner as to be afforded the opportunity to sit on the OTHER side of the legal table and have my hands unbound by handcuffs. That wasn't by chance. It was a conscious choice to live my life in a manner that I can say to my children, "Live as I have lived---walk in my footsteps, as opposed to "Honey, listen, I screwed up my life, killed a woman and a baby in a drunken stupor, don't ever look up to me." Regardless of your dismissive opinion of what you have done, I am entitled to hold my head high. The fact that I am afforded the right to stand taller than you is of your own doing--not mine. I do not wish you financial ruin. I want you to be fairly responsible for what you have done. Period. If you are financially unable to pay for what you have done and the result is financial ruin, that isn't my responsibility or concern. I want you to be held responsible under any sentence a court imposes. The Court doesn't sentence you to financial ruin. Your financial status was in place before the crime ever happened.

Being in jail is punitive and, at times, restorative. It isn't meant to hurt your feelings. SR-22 is the same. Any safe, careful driver is thankful for it because it keeps dangerous people who drink and drive off the road. If you read judgment in that, then perhaps you deserve it. Being thankful for measures that protect innocent people is something I certainly feel entitled to assert.

Regarding your general opinion of my reasoning--I am sorry to inform you that there are a host of graduate school professors as well as law school professors who wholeheartedly disagree. You will understand if I disregard your opinion of my "logic, syntax, and reasoning" and soundly accept theirs along with my 4.0 in both graduate school AND law school? Getting my goat? I am afraid I put much more import on the opinion of those who have accomplished, attained, and impart the same to their students than someone on a message board on the world wide web. Your comments were intended to be spiteful? LOL Ummm, 'kay. I found another thing you aren't very good at.

Let me refer to the following quote: ........I did not do it out of ill-will or intentional disregard for others. Instead of explaining to me how you are a good person, perhaps you would be better advised to research the definition of strict liability crimes and mens rea as it pertains to drunk driving. According to the law, when you "thoughtlessly" get behind the wheel of a car impaired, you demonstrated ill will and disregard for your fellow being.The act alone is enough to substantiate intent. Don't take my word for it. Ask your attorney.

I have to admit that this is the first time a drunk driver has ever lectured me on the merits of believing in a loving God while scolding ME for being unloving, while they are awaiting trial for a crime that could have killed innocent victims. * head tilt--pause for a moment of import* As one of my teenagers is fond of saying, "Yeah, riiiiiiiiiighhhhtttttttttttttttttt." (eyeroll)

As someone who believes not only in the love of an infallible God, but also in his wrath, and his judgment, I invite you to pick up a Bible and actually READ it. Take a perusal through the Gospels ---you will read, for example, of Jesus's anger at the money changers in the Temple who were cheating people. In his anger he brought down upon them, he overturned their tables and drove them from the Temple. The Bible is full of examples where Christ acted in righteous anger against wrongdoing. To preach his "Love" and overlook the other things he requires of us is simply an indication that you simply parroting things you have heard, from a book you have never read, mandated by a God whose wrath and judgment compels us to "judge righteous judgments".

The stark reality and horrific possibilities that could have happened that day you decided to drink and drive chill me to the bone. Unfortunately, you are oblivious to them all. Oh, your words written here acknowledge how naughty it was, but your focus is all on how you are a good person, how you deserve to avoid financial ruin, etc. Your words are an insincere red herring.

What do you think drives a prosecutor or lawmaker to lobby for stiffer penalties in prosecuting crime and handing down stiffer sentences? He is angry? He doesn't have a nice personality? No---he feels deeply about lawlessness and corruption that brings harm to innocent law abiding citizens ( like me ). While you are going around calling everyone who takes a position of judgment on your actions "angry", nothing could be further from the truth. LAWLESSNESS, i.e. disregard for the law, disregard for the consequences of ones actions---all these things are WHY people study law, practice law, and prosecute the same. Anger is a dangerous and wasteful emotion that does nothing to the person against whom it is levied and can very easily completely destroy the harbinger of the same. To say I am "angry" is, again, your own interjection and interpretation of inert words on a screen. You are misinterpreting my emotion as well as the focus of the same.

In closing, let me put a name and a face on your 'thoughtlessness'---I challenge you to look through these photos and see where my husband spent the last hour of his life burning to death in a truck, at the hand of someone just like you. Two days ago was the one year anniversary of his passing. Our family came together, not to mourn his passing, but to celebrate his life. I dare you to feel the pain of hearing a four year old say, "Too bad daddy doesn't want to be with us any more" and explain to him how and why. I dare you to see the heartache in the face of a special needs child that cannot speak and isn't even afforded the ability to put his grief into words and have them understood. I dare you to hold back tears as he wakes up in the middle of the night and presses his tear stained cheek against the cold glass window peering up to the clouds whispering, "Daddy? Daddy?"

I dare you to view these photos, enlarge them, smell the heat, the burning flesh, his cries for help as his life waned and tell me you are on "the good side" and we are on "the same side". Nothing could be further from the truth. Thoughtless and self centered behavior? That doesn't even begin to cover it.
2 Killed When School Bus, Truck Collide - Greenville News Story - WYFF Greenville

Thanks to the media, you can actually see my husband in his last moments of life---- 2 Killed When School Bus, Truck Collide - Photos - WYFF Greenville See him laying on the stretcher? He had exactly three minutes left to live--and worse yet, he was burned, conscious, and knew his life was ending---enough so he could tell them to tell me he loved us. See those people standing over his dying body? Those are the last faces he saw, the last voices he heard---that is what he took into eternity with him--the smell of charred flesh, burning heaps of mangled wreckage and the smell of blood.

Great man, husband of twenty years, father of seven. Glad you got to meet him before he succumbed to "thoughtless" behavior of a "good person who doesn't deserve to be ostracized from society", a good person that it "doesn't make sense to send to jail because they would face financial ruin."

You, me, on the same side? Your arrogance is astounding. I would give my last breath to make sure that nothing in my character ever even remotely mirrors the deficit in your own.

Argue your "I'm a good person" psycho-babble elsewhere. It is a flagrant waste of precious air and expensive bandwidth to assert it again.

Spare me the tedium of your insincerity in the form of yet another specious reply. I have finished posting on this thread and feel no need to read, or reply any further.