Posted on 07/11/2018 11:48:23 AM PDT by Simon Green
I called your question stupid. (Because it was). You’ve chosen to snowflake out over that...
Yet the heinous nature of the actions described in the article escapes you...and you STILL don’t get it.
I asked you a very reasonable question that you refused to answer.
Instead, you called me stupid.
Now you are backing off. Fine.
You are complaining that I am not exhibiting strong emotion about the abuse.
This is what the left does all the time.
Do something! Right now! For the Children!
This is exactly when calm, rationality, and due process is called for.
Otherwise we become a mob, capable of anything.
Barbarian savages
You need to read up on operant conditioning. Just because an infant cannot describe abuse in words does not mean there is no memory, fear or inhibition attached to that experience, including the sound of it and the sight of it, not just the pain of it. If someone tased your dog, it would growl or run every time it saw or smelled that person afterward. Why is a human less capable?
Mark, go to the link and watch the video. It changed my mind.
It was malicious as hell.
Yes.
It was malicious.
It was nasty.
I do not approve of it. The children doing it have to be shown that it is not acceptable behavior.
But felonies, for these teens?
This crime does not rise to the level of a felony.
A terrorizing incident in which there is pain causes an involuntary release of "fight or flight" chemicals into the blood stream, and possibly other hormones within the body that will contribute to a state similar to PTSD in a toddler that small, who has no means to process such an incident. She can't talk about it, receive talking therapy, or explain how she feels afraid when she hears similar noises in the future. It's possible these teens were even her half-sisters or cousins, and she will be exposed to her abusers repeatedly. This amount of fear is enough to induce a state of depression, which the brain can then make permanent through repetition of similar sights, sounds or environments where there is a sudden sharp pain followed by a lack of comforting as she reaches out for help, like what happened in this video. Children are not toys.
I did not call you stupid or attack you in any way, but that doesn’t mean I’m incapable of doing so.
You sir, are a liar.
I’m backing off? No. I stated in my original reply to you that the question was stupid, and I maintain that position. I have also not “refused to answer” anything, as if I were compelled to respond to every stupid question on the internet...
You’ve certainly not convinced anyone that the acts committed against this defenseless child are anything less than a heinous assault, worthy of flogging, nor have you shown evidence that I have attacked you.
Personal attacks are forbidden on Free Republic, and I will suggest that if your feelings are hurt badly enough, you press the “abuse” button and report me.
As to the rest; you don’t get to define what I’m saying. I can handle that by myself and did not request your assistance.
I am a mob, capable of anything.
You seem to have sacrificed a good part of your humanity in service to calm rationality. We will not find a middle ground.
Also, I have decided to answer your stupid question: under Arkansas law, first degree terroristic threatening is a felony.
My point is that many times when you see certain kinds of behavior in teenagers there is an absent father in the mix somewhere.
You and me both brother.
No one told them it was a sin.
I won’t argue felony or not.
What will they be charged with then, a misdemeanor?
They’re locked up in Juvy now so at least that has an impact on them.
I hope they are remorseful.
I understand MarkTwain’s cool headed approach to Justice...but there are limits and this case is an example. This is a case wherein a message must be sent not only to the malefactors but to all watching. The charge here should be as heavy as possible.
We could have had trump not destroyed Isis.
Agree with your post.
There is also a greater issue of the quest for equality before the law in this country having always struggled with how the courts view the treatment of children. In the colonies, all children were chattel of the father. As the pendulum has swung towards abortion, states have struggled with whether or not to charge for double murder when someone kills a woman pregnant with a wanted fetus. You’d think it would be common law to charge for two murders, but many states have had to pass specific laws in support of it, since the femnazis fight against any recognition of the humanity of the unborn.
On the other hand, radical pro-child legislation stemming from other feminist causes such as allowing schools to distribute birth control or to take a 12-year-old girl for an abortion without the parent’s knowledge have gone too far to undermine the rights of parents, and also their responsibilities. It’s a difficult balance.
The challenge of freedom in the U.S. today is that the culture at the Founding was firmly grounded in a common Christian social heritage. There was a widespread consensus about right and wrong, even if one were not a believer or a practitioner of a religion. This radical minting of wholesale “rights” that has gone on since WWII has been destroying political freedom in the greater sense, substituting political correctness and litigation for character development along a consensus ethos.
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