Depraved Indifference

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...Depraved indifference is best understood as a...disregard for the value of human life — a willingness to act not because one intends harm, but because one simply doesn’t care whether grievous harm results or not... wanton, deficient in a moral sense of concern, lacking in regard for the life or lives of others, and so blameworthy as to warrant the same criminal liability as that which the law imposes upon a person who intentionally causes a crime. Depraved indifference focuses on the risk created by the defendant’s conduct, not the injuries actually resulting... render the actor as culpable as one whose conscious objective is to kill People v. Suarez, 6 NY3d 202, 205 (2005)



Sociologist Peter Marin paraphrased -- our vulnerable populations are the sum total of our dreams, policies, intentions, errors, omissions cruelties and kindness as a society