How would you deal with accidentally killing someone?

Occasionally the thought of this pops into my head and it's something that I find really scary. Particularly when I'm driving, it's so easy to lose concentration for a second and that could be all it takes.

I guess there are two parts to this question. How would you feel if you killed someone but it was their fault, they didn't look when crossing the road etc.

I'm sure whilst it's against the law, most drivers will admit to using their mobile whilst driving. How would you deal with it if you killed someone whilst using it? Would you own up to have been on your mobile whilst knowing the implications of that (prison) or could you live with the guilt and lie?

God almighty, the nutters come out at night.

I don't really want to go to prison, so I'll try my best to get out of it :P and yes, lie if I have too!!

The same way I deal with spilling milk in the kitchen.

Leave it for someone else to clean up and get on with my day.

Call 999, tell them the truth, get my conviction and serve whatever punishment I have to. At the end of the day, I've killed someone, there's a dead body on the street because of me and I could've been the incautious human being crossing the road. The law is higher than anything else, a dead person's life is worth more than a few years in prison, sooner or later the truth will catch up. You might lie, but the cops will knock on your door one day and you'll have more trouble than expected on your back. Suck it up.

That is a very idealistic view of law and it's place in our society.

May I ask, why bound yourself to the morality of others? Surely morality is personal to who that holds it.

Would you not steal a loaf of bread to feed your starving child even though it is against the law? Would you not kill a man, even though it's against the law, if it were to save 100,000 people from certain death?

I was responding mainly to the particular first scenario set by the OP, in relation to driving and accidentally causing the death of another person. Everything has its consequences and I have to own up to my mistakes, especially if I killed an innocent human being who has done no harm to me.

I would, however, kill 1 person to save 100 000, would steal to feed a starving family, would torture and murder a paedophile without feeling the smallest sense of guilt/regret. Those are ethical dilemmas and instincts. The legal system exists to create order; killing a completely innocent civilian without justifying my reasonings would be crossing the limits. Yes?

People in this thread have demonstrated a quite frankly terrible attitude towards paedophilia, and it disgusts me that the media is so much to blame in this. Paedophilia is, what we as a society would call, a mental illness. Most do not have a choice in it, it is the way their brain is naturally wired, a sexual preference like any other that we ALL have. It is just that society has determined that children are not capable of making an informed sexual choice, and so acting on a sexual preference towards children would be taking advantage and this is, quite rightly, unacceptable. However, the media has driven our culture of thought policing these people having completely natural desires and persecuting them as if they had physically attacked children. This situation helps no one. People who have these thoughts cannot share them for fear of this labelling, they can not seek professional help, cannot seek support from their family, they are left alone to deal with being confused and thinking they are some kind of monster, when they are not. They are just innocent people. They are hurt by something they cannot control, and it is my belief that by society suppressing these people into a shell, not allowing them to seek help, will actually mean more children are hurt in the end.

Admittedly a very small minority of paedophiles are so out of choice, drawn by the allure of the 'wrong' in their actions, but we as a society through the media have created this situation for ourselves. People need to learn to understand and accept paedophilia if we are to save more children from harm.

If it was a convicted paedo, I'd go "oops" (complete with hand over mouth action) and continue deciding whether I want pepperoni or ham and mushroom pizza for dinner. Anybody else and I'd be quite upset. I wouldn't ever yap on my brick and drive though, that's quite retarded