# Tragic: What do you think of the new Lacy Peterson type pregnant woman disappearance? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 19, 2007, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tragic-what-do-you-think-of-the-new-lacy-peterson-type-pregnant-woman-disappearance/408580 "2007-06-19T13:11:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tragic-what-do-you-think-of-the-new-lacy-peterson-type-pregnant-woman-disappearance/408580/21 "2007-06-20T12:56:27Z")
[QUOTE=Richard Parker] Not, not exactly, and not explained in the second sentence which begins with “beyond that,” meaning “in addition to” the above bit of irrelevancy. [/QUOTE] I learned long ago that, regardless of what I want something to mean, and regardless of how well I write and rewrite a sentence or a paragraph, some people are determined to be offended by some things and will make things “mean” whatever they have to mean to allow them to be offended. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tragic-what-do-you-think-of-the-new-lacy-peterson-type-pregnant-woman-disappearance/408580/22 "2007-06-20T13:13:47Z")
[QUOTE=Sunrazor] I learned long ago that, regardless of what I want something to mean, and regardless of how well I write and rewrite a sentence or a paragraph, some people are determined to be offended by some things and will make things “mean” whatever they have to mean to allow them to be offended. [/QUOTE] Jesus Christ. Actually, I chose the more charitable interpretation of your words. I simply assumed that you didn’t mean that killing one of these women was more morally outrageous that killing than the other. That would be a sick thing to say. Instead, I gave you the benefit of the doubt, and assumed you meant that the “moral difference” was in each of these women’s personal lives before this crime. But fine. You didn’t mean either of those things? Then please offer a single plausible meaning for the “moral difference” you saw between this case and the Laci Peterson case that is consistent with what you said. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tragic-what-do-you-think-of-the-new-lacy-peterson-type-pregnant-woman-disappearance/408580/23 "2007-06-20T13:16:18Z")
[QUOTE=Elza B] My husband also went to high school with a girl who had a child in 1998 by the police officer [/QUOTE] Has anyone in the Buckeye state _not_ had a child fathered by this cop? ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tragic-what-do-you-think-of-the-new-lacy-peterson-type-pregnant-woman-disappearance/408580/24 "2007-06-20T13:25:39Z")
[QUOTE=Jackmannii] I hope everything turns out OK :dubious: , but I was struck by the following passage in the linked news story: “Porter said that when she didn’t hear from her daughter all day Thursday, she went to check on her Friday morning at her home near North Canton and found Blake home alone with a dirty diaper. “That was really out of character. The smell in the house was really overwhelming,” Porter said Monday on “The Early Show.”” That must have been some nuclear diaper. [/QUOTE] Prolly the bleach, not the diaper. I’m pretty sure that bleach trumps dirty diaper by a wide margin, especially when poured liberally all over the floors. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tragic-what-do-you-think-of-the-new-lacy-peterson-type-pregnant-woman-disappearance/408580/25 "2007-06-20T13:32:04Z")
[QUOTE=NinetyWt] Here’s a strange twist (might be unrelated): Newborn baby girl [found](http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/157045.html) in neighboring Wayne County. [/QUOTE] If it is her baby, I wonder if someone stole her intending to pass her off as their own, not realizing that she was half black. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tragic-what-do-you-think-of-the-new-lacy-peterson-type-pregnant-woman-disappearance/408580/26 "2007-06-20T13:35:43Z")
[QUOTE=Richard Parker] I simply assumed that you didn’t mean that killing one of these women was more morally outrageous that killing than the other. That would be a sick thing to say. Instead, I gave you the benefit of the doubt, and assumed you meant that the “moral difference” was in each of these women’s personal lives before this crime. [/QUOTE] You are absolutely correct. See? We agree about the meaning after all. My follow-on comment clearly stated that, regardless of how either woman lived her life, we humans are always more emotionally affected by the murder of a pregnant woman than we are by the murders of most others, and that there is a perfectly good reason for this. As long as you’re assuming things, please feel free to assume that I share those emotions. ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tragic-what-do-you-think-of-the-new-lacy-peterson-type-pregnant-woman-disappearance/408580/27 "2007-06-20T14:10:32Z")
[QUOTE=vetbridge] Has anyone in the Buckeye state _not_ had a child fathered by this cop? [/QUOTE] :raises hand: ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tragic-what-do-you-think-of-the-new-lacy-peterson-type-pregnant-woman-disappearance/408580/28 "2007-06-20T14:28:44Z")
[QUOTE=Elza B] :raises hand: [/QUOTE] Cool. I was starting to get worried. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tragic-what-do-you-think-of-the-new-lacy-peterson-type-pregnant-woman-disappearance/408580.md?page=1)