So what if you're filtering past a vehicle and a kid jumps out from between stationary vehicles and you kill him or her? Court rules you should have anticipated the crossing pedestrian and bans you from driving or riding forever. Maybe sends you to prison. Is this fair?
Obviously this is an emotive subject and many will have a hard line "hang em all" attitude to it on a motorcycle forum. But I think that the road is a dangerous place and there will always be some accidents. What a court needs to determine is whether it was wilfully negligent driving (driving while texting for example) or whether it was just a freak momentary lapse. If the driver has an otherwise unblemished driving record, then there is no evidence of a pattern of dangerous driving. Only evidence of a freak split second moment that could have happened to anyone.
Things need to be done to improve road safety, no doubt, but ruining a person's life (as taking away their licence can do if their employment depends on it for example) doesn't help unless you can prove they are a danger to others and not just someone who made a freak split second mistake that anyone could have made.
I don't buy the eye for an eye argument either. Fine if you want to go that way, but just remember that one day it may be you having your licence taken away.
***EDIT***
You know what I would do in this sort of situation... the driver loses their licence instantly. However, they can get it back at any time by completing a serious, tough, hardcore driving assessment. I'm not talking some toothless driver improvement course here, I mean you spend a whole day out with an assessor at your own expense having every single aspect of your driving scrutinised. If the expert says you're generally a safe driver but had a split second inexplicable moment of madness, you get your licence back; if not, you don't. You can retake this assessment as many times as you like, but at your own expense.
Note, this is for people where there is some doubt over whether they were driving dangerously or just had a freak incident. For people where it is already established that they wilfully drove dangerously by texting or something like that, they should get a lifetime ban and serve jail time.
To be honest though, I think people should have follow up driving tests at certain points anyway... every 20 years or something.