A dude drops a cinderblock on a baby's head and you blame the mother for getting pregnant? Wut?Malo_Tux said:Why in the hell did that woman get pregnant in the first place!?
"She reportedly had 5 other children by different men."Dags90 said:What the fuck?dogstile said:He's disgusting and she's a whore.
I don't really think there is anything left to add.
She's a whore for having a child with her longtime boyfriend? DOES NOT COMPUTE.
Edit: I've read the article, it's still fucked up.
What the fuck is wrong with you. Human life is human life. He deserves life in prison, nothing less.The Plunk said:This kind of thing is probably very common in 3rd world countries, but when it happens in a place like America, people suddenly treat it like it's something that never happens.
The woman should have got an abortion long before the baby was "sentient" so to speak.
However, and I'm gonna be hated for saying this, I don't think this guy should be charged as harshly as if he'd killed a grown child or adult. It's only a newborn baby it's not got any real feelings or emotions the same as, say, a 1 year old does.
Without getting into the debate about abortion entered into above, a newborn is a human life and society rightly, perhaps arguably for your part, assigns it the same value of a human life. However I and most of our societies would argue that babies and the elderly are our most vulnerable and in both cases to be protected and cherished. Anyone who can murder a child, let alone a baby, a disabled person or an elderly person is a coward and criminal of the absolute worst sort, worse than murdering an adult who at least can defend themselves.The Plunk said:However, and I'm gonna be hated for saying this, I don't think this guy should be charged as harshly as if he'd killed a grown child or adult. It's only a newborn baby it's not got any real feelings or emotions the same as, say, a 1 year old does.
Whether you support abortion or not, you can't deny there's a difference between a medical procedure to remove an undeveloped, non-sentient cluster of cells, and dropping a cinderblock on the head of a conscious, fully-formed and anatomically independent baby.AlexNora said:you actually believe that? a child is a child from conception!Count Igor said:Abortion happens before the egg is fertilized enough to even be classified as.. I think living, actually. As it hasn't gone through every stage required (I think there are seven... Respiration's one of them). This is a fully conscious baby. It can make noise, have faint recognition and memory. These are two completely different things.Markgraf said:And yet nobody frowns upon abortion, even though this is exactly the same thing.
abortion is murder plain and simple.
There's also the very real possibility that the woman, who was so poor she gave birth to her child in a parked car, simply can't afford consistent birth control and family planning services. There's a good chance she didn't take prenatal vitamins or do the recommended checkups, either. That doesn't make her a terrible person, it makes her poor.xXxJessicaxXx said:Although this woman seems to be rather careless (understatement) >_> with birth control I would just like to point out that things can be rather random
Nick Stackware said:OmniscientOstrich said:Markgraf said:And yet nobody frowns upon abortion, even though this is exactly the same thing.
Though I'm not comfortable with the idea of abortion, or the reasons some(not all) women give for having them, there is, I think, a rather large difference between terminating a pregnancy(methods varying according to how far in the mother is) and dropping a cinder block on a newborn's head. I think this for several reasons, but the main one is simply because the man has picked up his own flesh and blood, seen it, heard it's first cries, put it down, looked at it and then crushed it's head. Twice. There is none of the distance abortion gives, nothing is hidden, and yet he probably didn't even blink. That takes a level of vileness that very few would be capable of.
I think the reactions are for the same reason so many people go abroad for charity work. Nobody likes to think about the fact that bad things also happen around them(unless they live in an openly unpleasant place, and even then...), so when they're presented with something like this, in "their own back yard", it kind of hits an uncomfortable mental button.The Plunk said:This kind of thing is probably very common in 3rd world countries, but when it happens in a place like America, people suddenly treat it like it's something that never happens.
I disagree with you on the matter of leniency. I understand your argument about the newborn basically being a blank slate and therefore being "worth" (I know this is probably not the word you would use, I'm just lacking imagination at the moment) less than an older child, but the fact is that the man chose to kill his child in cold blood, despite the alternatives, simply as matter of personal convenience. No matter the age of the victim this is wrong, and cannot become less so. The fact that it was his own, defenceless newborn child just adds to the nausea and anger this story gives me.The Plunk said:However, and I'm gonna be hated for saying this, I don't think this guy should be charged as harshly as if he'd killed a grown child or adult. It's only a newborn baby it's not got any real feelings or emotions the same as, say, a 1 year old does.
Probably because they deserve it. Oh, and i'm only on my first warning from like, 4 months ago.DragonLord Seth said:Damn ninjas...dogstile said:He's disgusting and she's a whore.
I don't really think there is anything left to add.
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And you insulted them, how have you NOT been banned yet!?
The66Monkey said:indeed, my point is that when all these religious nut-jobs go on about how wrong abortion is they fail to see what position they are pushing the people, who are even in the first case in such a position as to have to consider abortion, in to.ShakyFt Slasher said:Actually this is far worse than abortion...The66Monkey said:"Well at least she didn't have an abortion" i hear god say
And hell Atlee he seams to have done it in an rather instantaneous way, he could have drowned the kid so hey as far as bad decisions go this was a good one.
Doesn't planned parenthood give them away for free anyway?Jingai09 said:If you're too poor to buy a condom, you have no business having sex.
The baby was already a live, somewhat autonomous human being while an unborn foetus is a potential human being that is still in development and has no higher brain functions. Plus, even if you completely disregard that point, you should keep in mind that banning it does not keep people from actually getting the abortions, and instead they get it done by unscrupulous businessmen in less than sanitary conditions--it's about dealing with the problem at large, not necessarily about "fixing it" perse by keeping people ignorant and away from the problem, as the only way to do that is with comprehensive sexual education and contraceptive use.Nick Stackware said:Why the no? At least explain your response if you say something.OmniscientOstrich said:No, just no.Markgraf said:And yet nobody frowns upon abortion, even though this is exactly the same thing.