First I give you this. Now I warn you anything that Basu writes makes me shoot blood out of my eyes, but I like arguing w/ the people who comment on her drivel. If your lazy basicly, some chick killed her baby several years ago and was sentenced to prison. Now she is aparantly getting a new trial because they are blaming it on Postpartum Depression....
I'll conceed the point that postpartum depression is real. I won't argue that, I know depression and what it can do. However, I whole-heartedly, disagree that it should be a get out of jail free card. Where do we draw the line? Murder is ok, as long as it was committed by a crazy mother? No, murder is murder and there should be punishment, this was not a justifiable homicide. This was a messed up lady who, instead of getting help (or any of her friends or family getting her help) she decided to act on her depression and kill her infant. I'm not completely heartless, I dont' think this was Murder 1, but definately Manslaughter or hell some charge of fatal Neglect I would agree with, and of course some mental help while they are in minimum security or a secure mental hospital.
Here is another example of how our society has turned to one of excuses and "the devil made me do it" attitude. We will look for every other reason why something happend before we will take personal responsibility for our own actions. Which is going to lead me off on a different tangent in this blog, I'd considered makeing a seperate entry but, meh deal with it.
Tangent: America, Socialism and you
Judging by what I'm hearing from the various news sources I read/listen/watch, it seems our society is more than ever, heading down the slippery slope of socialism. The most blatent example was while I was listening to Sean Hannity (Don't worry, I'm not a crazy republican. Its just one of my many sources I look at). He was taking 30 second calls from Obama supporters and refuting whatever topic they brought up. When this caller said something that he agreed with Obama's tax plan and his quote "I think spreading the wealth around is a good thing - Obama". Hannity said so you agree with "From each American acording to his ability, to each American according to his need"? The caller said, "yes". Hannity for a moment was speechless. He asked, do you know who said that? The caller truthfully admitted "no", and this guy sounded like he had to have been at least middle aged and thus had no excuse why he shouldn't have known the famous Karl Marx quote. Is this really what the majority of Americans belive? That the government should have their hands in everything so we don't have to? Should the government have controll over your healthcare, retirement, mortgage? Or in the extreme, what you eat? Your income? Your profession? Aparanlty some people do, but I doub't they know what socialism really means in the long run. It just doesn't work. It strips away the freedoms our ancestors fought so hard to obtain and protect. It discourages, innovation and productivity. It discurages uniqueness.
I just found it sad that there are really people out there that have no problems giving up these freedoms. Simply because they don't want to be held responsible, or think nobody and no business should be allowed to fail because it might cause someone, somewhere, an inconvenience. In my opinion, people should be allowed to fail. When we fail, that is when we learn the most and will (excuse my callousness) weed out those who refuse to better themselves. There are some things the government should have a hand in of course, but that list should be significantly smaller than it is now. Take responsibility for yourself
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I agree with you compeletely. This is going to do for crazy new moms, what the insanity plea used to do. Women are going to get off even though they still committed murder. Especially since this chick admitted on Oprah that she had issues she should have dealt with.
Talk about hitting the nail on the head. Everyday we talk to people who take zero responsibility for themselves and their actions. These United States needs to get their act together and stop worrying about their next welfare check, and start worrying about whether or not they are going to go to a dark place away from the rest of society for being a drain.
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