Breaking into a car to save a child.

[Sector 7]

How is it, then, countless millions of busy parents with front airbags manage to not kill their kids in the backseats of their cars in hot weather. The study may be a *reason* but I don't accept it as an excuse to "forgive" a parent who does this. I'm sure it's a traumatizing, dramatic, and gut-wrenching experience and I don't think any form of prosecution or legal attack is necessary but, at the end of the day, I feel the parent was an idiot.

Vastly more people manage to not kill their kids in hot cars, people who're just as busy, people who're just as pulled thin, people with rear-facing car seats in the back of the car. So apparently it isn't *that* hard to remember you have another young, vulnerable, human life in the backseat.

Those lines, highlighted above, are the reasons I completely agree with your post. It seems some are more worried about how the negligent relatives feel, than the innocent life taken through their action or inaction. Those people have a choice to give that child's life priority or not. With my children, I chose to give them the priority they deserved.

Newton's Law says that for every action their is an equal and opposite reaction. In other words, if your behavior results in the death of an innocent life... action needs to be taken against you.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Sounds like we'd better start executing parents whose children find their guns and kill people/themselves, then.

 

[Sector 7]

Sounds like we'd better start executing parents whose children find their guns and kill people/themselves, then.

If their guns were not properly secured, then those parents are culpable.

In my home, there have always been 2 Rules:
1 - SAFETY FIRST
2 - If you make a mess, you clean it up. (My friend's 5-year old always added, "And nobody be mad." I agreed.)

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Sounds like we'd better start executing parents whose children find their guns and kill people/themselves, then.

If their guns were not properly secured, then those parents are culpable.

They are, but in practice, if your kid kills himself with your gun, there are rarely any serious legal consequences.

You also had this bizarre gem:

Newton's Law says that for every action their is an equal and opposite reaction. In other words, if your behavior results in the death of an innocent life... action needs to be taken against you.

...which makes positively zero sense. Laws of physics are not literally like human-crafted laws. To treat them as the same thing is not just baffling, it's wrong.

 

[Sector 7]

^It seems you have never heard of a metaphor?

 

[Robert Maxwell]

A metaphor isn't an argument. It's just a metaphor. I don't know about you, but I don't want my laws built around physics metaphors.

 

[Sector 7]

A metaphor isn't an argument. It's just a metaphor. I don't know about you, but I don't want my laws built around physics metaphors.

Perhaps, if I said "corollary" or maybe used smaller words? My point is still valid, whether you agree or not.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

A metaphor isn't an argument. It's just a metaphor. I don't know about you, but I don't want my laws built around physics metaphors.

Perhaps, if I said "corollary" or maybe used smaller words? My point is still valid, whether you agree or not.

Hey, I didn't insult your intelligence, I just said you weren't making a coherent argument.

 

[Captrek]

A metaphor isn't an argument. It's just a metaphor. I don't know about you, but I don't want my laws built around physics metaphors.

A talking point I've heard a few times (e.g., Mike Huckabee) is that "marriage is between one man and one woman" is a law of nature just like gravity, and that the government can no more change that than they can change gravity. I don't know how some people manage to make it through the day without falling off the planet.