[Trailerpark Badass]

So you would argue that someone who kills someone in self-defense should be treated the same as someone who pre-meditated their killing? As you would say, that would be “a distinction without a difference, in practical terms.”

I don't think that analogy holds up.

Murder and killing are not the same acts, necessarily, and killing in self-defense is certainly not the same act as murder.

Driving impaired is driving impaired, regardless of the substance.

[ConservativeMind]

So the result is no different between killing in self-defense versus planning and performing a murder?

You are saying that killing someone from inattention is the same as killing someone from drunk driving.

I don't think you understand those are the same argument and that you are inconsistent.