Setting Oneself Above the Rest

[ChipWrecked]

A post or two in this thread brought up a point that I'm sure has been well-covered in philosophy, but I never studied it, so school me, please:

Person A believes he shouldn't be bound by safety laws that affect the 'mass' of people because his skills are greater than theirs. He is granted exemption from this law because of his 'superior skills'.

Person A then is found to be at fault in a mishap that killed Person B; this mishap is exactly the situation covered in the law from which Person A was exempt because of his 'superior skills'.

Should the punishment for Person A be greater, due to his claim that he was better than everybody else, than it would have been for say, Person C, who broke the law but didn't claim he should have been exempt from it?