Posted on 08/23/2007 6:08:28 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
This type of thing is applicable to most situations. It doesn’t have to be out of the person’s control. All it takes is one long day, one instance of forgetting, one miscalculation, or whatever and the whole thing comes crashing down.
Profoundly, sadly, absolutely true.
i agree that “accidents” and “mistakes” happen, but i can not categorize this as a “mistake” to me a “mistake” is if I forget to add baking soda to a cake recipe, or I grade a paper wrong,
a human being died, and i’m sure that this death was not without a great deal of pain and discomfort for the childj
this is a tragedy
What can I say? I say “apples”, you and people like you hear “oranges”. The world in large part, is loused up because of disobedience to God and ignoring plain scriptural teaching. . that goes for the man who would not provide for his own and is worse than infidel. Sin is in back of most of our problems.
Well I won’t disagree with your main point, but beware the Pharisee Syndrome.
. . and thus it behooves us individually, if we agree this society is generally living a big, fat lie, to ourselves eschew every vestige of yuppiehood and all its emphasis on plastic surgery and outward appearances and materialism (a never-ending artificial pressure). It’s up to us as individuals to live the truth and let those who don’t wish to live the truth and choose decent values to just go fish. It’s a place every man must come to on his own or else stay ever miserable, ever phony. God deals with each person if they’ll only listen to what He is saying to them through their experiences and their environments.
Careful what you reveal!
Because of your experience, some on this thread are disgusted that you were allowed to procreate.
Not me, I was being sarcastic.
man, if they objected to my procreating, they shoulda said something and spared me a lot of work.
I am amused that people feel so free to comment on others procreation. Like it is their business.
I’m not sure what that means, but I hope it’s not bad. Cause, I’m just saying what I feel, I’m not trying to get a reaction, if that’s what you mean, but of course, I’m not sure.
..and neither one could afford to stay home or have someone stay home with this little baby....
Dear mercy, 7 months
well said, basil
“Dear mercy, 7 months”
Cooked in a back seat while the baby’s parents ran off to their American dream. I repeat, “cooked alive.” Well, now they won’t have to worry about where Junior is, will they?
Disgusting!
They had to use daycare instead of having someone watch her in their home?
Judging by how most physicians live and the cars they drive, they most certainly could have afforded to stay home for a few months.
I’ve yet to meet any of them who live at the level we have to.
Quickness to judge in a characteristic of some people. They judge everyone harshly. I don’t think they think much.
Most of us know we are one moment of distraction or carelessness or fatigue away from something terrible. I think that is the universal condition and anyone who says “I would never” doesn’t recognize that.
But there is not much sense in saying that. They don’t want to hear.
You are not a parent, obviously.
are you kidding me on #1? You shouldn’t make light of this by attributing it to ADD which is ridiculous. ADD doesn’t make a “parent” do something so horrific. Selfishness does.
I’m with you. I cannot imagine it.
I find it interesting that ones like you seem to be saying there should be NO legal consequences or jailtime for these “parental forgetfulness” situations, since “they’ll pay for the rest of their lives” because their baby died.
That isn’t justice, and that doesn’t represent our sacred justice system in the United States at all. A drunk driver shouldn’t be charged with committing a crime because someone died, and they’ll feel bad enough about it for a long time? A parent neglects their child by leaving it alone at home, the house catches fire and the child dies, but there should be no punishment under the law because their child died?
That is illogical and irrational. Parents who leave children to cook in their cars are under the law MINIMALLY commmitting criminally negligent homicide, by leaving their precious babies unattended in a condition where their death is predicable and emeninent.
How should this scenario go unpunished or excused by our judicial system? Maybe someone can explain it to me (outside of emotions and the reality of a dead child). I really would like to know.
I understand. But don’t get fooled into thinking that it is “justice” when it is merely revenge. It is our anger being serviced by it, not their “guilt”.
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