Quote: "If you were jaywalking, and a car was on the street, they should be charged with murder, because they could have hit you. If you were driving along the street, and you saw a jaywalker out of the blue, you should be charged with murder."
Wrong. You are still missing the picture. The only one in those scenarios committing a crime is the J-Walker (who should be punished as they can cause an accident which in turn could cause a car to kill someone else). There is no crime in driving down the street, so you should not be classified as a threat.
Quote: "If you said something bad about the Government, you should be charged with treason and terrorism."
Still no. There is nothing wrong with voicing your opinion. If however you were at a major rally trying to overthrow a government, then yes. As trying to overthrow a government is treason.
Quote: "If you got into a grade school fight, that should be first degree murder. Right?"
Again no, unless you were actually trying to kill the other person (choking or attacking with a deadly weapon). Then yes. Fighting between children is not a crime (adults however should know better unless there is no other choice or the other guy went into your house and seen your wife in the shower). It cannot be murder unless you are either trying to kill someone or committing a
crime in such a way that someone could get killed.
Also there should not be different degrees of murder. If you kill someone on purpose, it is murder period. If you accidently kill someone while doing something legal, it is manslaughter.
You seem to be missing the concept of the crime part being involved. What I am saying is that if you commit a crime, that could lead to endangerment of lives even if remotely by accident, you should have to pay for the consequences of said endagerment. The message should be that you are not supposed to commit these crimes, not that you can commit them carefully and with little to no punishment
