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Originally Posted by TxUmp
How can you exclude DUI from your list? Anyone who drives after drinking places everyone near him in grave danger. It is a SERIOUS offense - in my mind much worse than fraud or theft.
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While I agree that the potential consequences are much higher, the mindset of someone who gets a single DUI as opposed to someone who commits a single act of the others is much different. A person who has a single DUI (and none in a significant period of time since then) made a bad decision, with no intent to cause harm, and most likely learned from it (a classic case of drift theory for you criminologists out there.) The other crimes do entail an element of intent to cause harm.