> -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 9:46 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Summer Camps > > YOu have no idea how much of a horrible painful death it is to die of > complications of diabetes. I nearly died a couple of times of my own > stupidities. The fact is they did this DELIBERATELY. I don't care if > they grieved. They saw how much torment the kid was in. In the end it > was a nasty and entirely preventable death of an innocent. They deserve > everything the law can throw at them. Personally I think that this sort > of person ought to suffer what the kid went through. It was their > choice to follow their mythical tribal diety and its sadistic > superstitions, but to require an innocent to suffer such, that is evil.
I'm sorry, but that's an emotional response. Would it be any better if the death was painless? Those stupid, stupid people cried over their child, they felt the pain. To call it sadistic, to suggest that they took pleasure in the child's pain, that's just blind. Perhaps it's just the humanist in me, but I believe that these people were completely, utterly and in all ways convinced that they're course of action was the absolute BEST one for their child. For you to downplay that belief as flippant and further intimate that they themselves knew it was flippant shows a complete lack of understanding of that belief. These parents are faced with two possibilities at this point: either live with the fact that the Lord they praise found them unworthy of aid or live with the fact that the belief that defined their existence is a mistake and that mistake cost them their child's life. Let me be clear tho': I agree completely with you that the belief is ignorant, superstitious and in this case fatally dangerous. It's a delusion. But it's also true that we accept this delusion socially, legally and ethically. It's that mass acceptance of delusion that makes situations like this possible, not "evil parents". I join you in railing against the framework that would generate such beliefs; against the purveyors and hypocritical architects of them. But I can only feel pity for the poor souls that fall victim to them. In this case both the child that died so tragically and the parents that have to live with the results of their blind faith. (Now you've got me defending evangelicals. Damn this has been a bass-awkwards day.) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:265409 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
