Let me get this straight. If your parents were found in your house, with their genitals pulled apart, their eyes hanging out, their fingers sawed off, and their bodies torched.. you'd wait.. let's say 50 years later, sit down with a friend, maybe have a hot cup of coffee, and say something like, "Man, I'm glad my parents were tortured and beaten to death.. Heck, I wouldn't be able to stand them right now." Am I reading this correctly? So if my cousin, a 10 year old with down syndrome, goes and murders someone because of.. let's say.. a video game, then he should be put in jail for the rest of his life? ..because of an illness? Did you know that Adolf Hitler spent 9 months in prison planning to not only overthrow the government, but kill thousands of "outcasts"? That's taking murder to another degree... I'm sure this lady didn't plan to eat her own child's brain, stab herself, then confess the very same day.. unless she was very screwed up.
You can only wonder why she would eat her child... Was she a psychopath? Yes, obviously. Should she be rehabilitated, no, put her on Death Sentence. Someone that screwed up in the head is obviously never going to recover.
My band is called "Child Dismemberment". What an odd coincidence. Seeing as free will is moot, it should be looked at from a societal standpoint. There's no way of knowing if the crazy instinct in her head will get "dead baby brain" pangs, so society needs some sort of assurance that said event will never happen again. I very much doubt you are a criminal psychologist, and therefore you shouldn't make statements like that. I would. The punch line would be hard to set up though. What about: "A man walks into a bar, but the owners have been raped, tortured and lit on fire, so he leaves." Or... "What's raped, tortured and lit on fire?"
No, my joke would be funny. That wasn't even really a joke. It was a statement. Yes, but depending on where you live he might get the death sentence instead. How long do you think this took? A few seconds? No, I'd venture to say it took at least fifteen minutes to half an hour. She thought about it while she did it. It wasn't a "crime of passion", she did it, saw that she did it, and continued eating. Without going into to much graphic detail I'm sure you can figure out why she had time to think about it. I know that doesn't really compare to nine months, but it does disprove what you were saying about her not thinking about it. At least somebody agrees with me, if for different reasons. I love you so much right now.
You need to learn something here. It's not just me, the entire world is messed up. Well, maybe not the entire world, but a good portion. There are those who read this and feel sorry for the child, but there are just as many who read it, shrug, and make a few jokes to their friends about it. And secondly, I think you've backed RST into a corner with the parents comparison. He knows his parents; he loves his parents. RST, you, and I and everyone else on this forum (as far as I know) had no relationship with the family or anyone who knew the family. Reading this article from my perspective is like reading a story. I don't know the person and never will, so it's as good as fiction in the way it dictates my emotions. People always ask if you care about the starving children in Africa, and I know it's awful, but I would say that compared to the way I care about most things and people in my life, as much as I'd like to, I don't believe that I genuinely care about those children. So all in all yes, I'm a terrible person, but don't attack me like I'm the sinner in a world of saints.
Okay. You tell me a joke about your parents who have been beaten and tortured to death. Go. You replied with the exact same thing I was about to say! The fact is, 15 minutes and 9 months cannot be compared. Nice try. You're talking about the difference between the mature and the immature. The experienced and the inexperienced. I cannot honestly find anything funny about a kid being dismembered by his mom and it's clear that you guys have much to learn about topics such as these... I'll end my part of the discussion here.
I ****ing love you. So much. All of the analogies you guys are using really are crap... and yes they do compare, just not incredibly closely. She had time to think about it, that was my point. It was not a spur of the moment, crime of passion. If you're not intelligent enough to understand that was the point of my last post then I doubt there is a reason to even be having this argument, I'll go explain it to a brick wall instead.
It appears you've misunderstood me throughout this entire thread. I never thought the child being killed was funny. That's how I deal with these sort of things. It's easier to shrug it off and forget than to sit there thinking about it.
This is what I've been saying from the beginning, it doesn't directly effect (I presume) any of us. So it's much easier just to shrug it off than to sit and think about it until you have to force yourself to be sad about it.
I'm glad it happened, else I would not have had this lovely conversation. Can I be depressed, existential and bitter with you guys?