Imagine being so wealthy that you got whatever you wanted. Like for instance a car, a phone or three, a flat screen T.V. in your room, maybe even your way at all times. For a lot of families, they teach their children that you can't always get what you want, but for Ethan Couch, that wasn't the case.
I think this just shows people how easy you can get away with something so horrible. It's setting an example to other people that if you have enough money plus you are raised to think you can do what you want then you can murder someone and get away with it. In retrospect it shows how loose the government system has become with crimes like that.
Relations to me by class from this article doesn't really seem apparent.
In my mind I think this is ridiculous. To think something so severe can just get passed by is sick, I mean think about how their families feel about it. Loosing somebody in that kind of way and the person gets away with it is not in the slightest right. I feel upset by this and how it's bypassed so easily even though it was manslaughter of four counts. It affects me to know I have to be more careful or someone could do something similar to me and get away with it. The way it happened makes me think to be more alert to things around myself.
I think the author of the article I read about this incident was very thorough about how things happened. According to the article it says, "He pleaded guilty to four counts of manslaughter by intoxication and two counts of assault by intoxication causing bodily injury. Two teens in the bed of the truck were seriously injured, and one cannot move or talk." (25)
Yet this happens and he got away with it. Regardless of being raised a certain way, it's wrong. There were two people who lived by who were coming to help who were also killed. They turned out to be mother and daughter of Eric Boyles. What Eric said about this was, "It was Couch’s wealth that kept him from a harsher sentence."(31)
Gray, Madison. "The Affluenza Defense: Judge Rules Rich Kid’s Rich Kid-ness Makes Him Not Liable for Deadly Drunk Driving Accident". Newsfeed. 12 Dec 2013. Web. 12 Jan 2014. <http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/12/the-affluenza-defense-judge-rules-rich-kids-rich-kid-ness-makes-him-not-liable-for-deadly-drunk-driving-accident/>.
