Originally Posted By Sara Tonin No DAR I don't think the guy who threw the baby out of the car has sympathy for this guy. I'm pretty sure if he can't feel anything for the baby he threw out the window he's not capable of thinking about anyone else. I think in order for people to process this sort of information they can only assume the person is psychotic. And in the long and the short of it, there is no punishment fit for this guy. He just needs to be separated from society.
Originally Posted By Ursula I wish we could still form posses and go after this guy. But no. THAT'S now considered wrong and we have to spend money on trials and lawyers and years of keeping this guy alive. Sigh. I guess it is all good in the long run, but sometimes I just wish we could bend the rules once in a while.
Originally Posted By dshyates RT, I have no problem with you starting this thread. But then again, I'm the one who started the thread about the the guy throwing the baby out of the car. I think these kind of threads, while unsetteling, are interesting in exposing the base of humanity. It also gives us more normal folks a place to discuss the disturbing things around us. Which I believe is important, considering that we are bombarded with STUFF everyday. Of course everyone is gonna say, "That's horrible". But it helps to say it, and hear others say it. We live in a cold cruel world, and you can either ignore it, or deal with it. I think this is a way to deal with it.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones Another feel good article. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/19/murder.suicide.families/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/...dex.html</a> "ln April, a Maryland man wrote six suicide notes expressing his love and sorrow for his family, and then shot his wife and three children, before killing himself with a shotgun. This month, a man killed his wife and two sons in their home near Tampa, Florida. Troy Bellar chased after his teenage son with a high-powered rifle, but the 13-year-old escaped. Bellar later shot himself. In some of this year's most disturbing cases of family violence, fathers have turned against their own flesh and blood -- asphyxiating and beating teenagers, firing shots into sleeping children tucked in bed, slaying grandparents and shooting infants in diapers." My reaction isn't, "What has the world come to?" I think this is how the world has always been. People have been doing f'ed up things since the beginning of people.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<I don't think this needs to be published. It does nothing to improve my life to know that this happened.>> You mean there are posts in World Events that DO improve someone's life? Personally, I don't know that I recall any... ;-)
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones We look at the past through rose-colored glasses. We don't let our children walk to school anymore because we think the world has somehow gotten worse. It's not true. The world is in a better state than it has ever been by many metrics. Specifically in regard to this tragic story and others like it, I believe many of these incidents have been prevented by advances in medical and mental health. Many people CAN live with mental conditions or shake off a drug addictions these days and live productive lives. Don't let high-profile articles about horrible things cloud your judgment of the world.
