I hit with my car in the night a pedestrian who is spaced out on mescaline and has suicidal tendencies. Vs I hit with my car a neighbor whom I had and have long list of legal disputes and physical confrontations and death threats.

Both hits are the same, resulting damage/death same. Law differentiates on (proven or disproven) intent and resulting sentencing difference may be huge. Or at least should be. World and people are unfortunately anything but simple generic use cases.

Million other cases proving there are good reasons to take intent into account, even if surface for mistreatment is not small. Unjustice otherwise would be bigger IMHO.