You’re talking out your ass. We don’t give a shit what your opinion is. Opinions are like assholes. Saying it’s your opinion that they are murderers doesn’t make you right. It makes you look stupid. You still haven’t read that cite, have you? Homicide covers a lot more ground than murder, which specifically is the unlawful and malicious killing of a person. You’ve been trying to argue all along that the parents’ actions are malicious.
Don’t forget the “jailed for life” comment. Why don’t you tell me how many misdemeanors are punishable by life imprisonment? You can’t. Because there aren’t any. Murder is a felony. You were tying the deaths with felonious behavior and you damn well know it.
Well, let me dispel your ignorance. I’m not offended by your opinion. I’m offended by your stupidity.
Cripes. How many times does Diogenes have to make statements that flatly and obviously contradict his prior statements, as demonstrated by several prior posts in this thread where people have bothered to quote the directly contradictory statements, before people realize that he is either trolling us, or beyond reason?
I mean, his argument so far seems to have consisted of, “That could never happen to me. Because I’m special. And those people are murderers. Fine, they’re not murderers, I didn’t say murderers anyway. OK, I did say murderers, but that could mean anything I want it to mean. OK, it has a specific legal meaning but that’s not the one I was using. And anyway it’s illegal according to the statutes. OK, not in every state, but it’s still totally illegal even in the states where there aren’t statutes about it and anyone who says otherwise is a baby-killer apologist.”
No, they’re lying to themselves because “empathy” is apparently something to be proud of. I don’t feel the need to empathize with terrible parents and tell them that it’s okay that they killed their kid. The rest of you do.
I know nothing of the sort–especially not after reading that article.
One mom in that article regularly managed multi-million-dollar budgets without losing a penny. She’s far less absent-minded than I am. And yet she killed her baby through a single moment of perfect-storm distraction.
One dad in that article spent years going through the adoption process, ended up adopting a child from Russia, spent a long time taking his baby to physical therapy to help him overcome disabilities. And he, too, encountered a perfect storm of distractions, and killed his baby.
If you think you’re immune to the horrifying inefficiencies of the human brain, well, that might help you get through the day, and it might even be adaptive, because of course the chances that it’ll happen to you are nearly zero. But you’re incorrect: your brain is a human one, just like mine, just like the parents in that article, and it suffers from the same imperfections.
God damn, you can’t even retort properly. There was a whole two minutes between your post and mine, so obviously not. Why even try if that’s the best you can do?
And no, deluding yourself is not being a good father. Being a good father would be acknowledging that it can happen and taking steps to lessen the risk. Misplaced confidence can kill.
Okay, you got me. Nobody has actually typed out those exact words. Way to go, you win the internet. What just about everyone has done is bend over backwards to make excuses for people that let their kids die because of their own negligence. I don’t make those excuses. If you let your kid die in a car, you were a terrible parent.