From: Madame RD
Le 31/05/10 16:12, Boris Liberman a ?crit :
> I agree. Bob W indicated that he wouldn't mind if it were an option.
> However, I would add to Bob W's agreement a requirement of my own that
> such a system would be available from any car manufacturer as an extra
> cost option.
>
> Boris
seems to me it's a very good idea .
Over here, a very serious-minded chemist left his baby daughter to die
in his car because he had had to interrupt his daily routine ( had to
stop and help at a car accident after leaving his first child at her
school) he hurried to work and completely forgot about her . He never
could explain how such a thing could have happened. I dont remember
whether he was condamned or not .
dominique
One of the articles cited earlier in the thread said stress can mess up
your short term memory. Not only was his daily routine disrupted, but it
was disrupted in an especially stressful way - by having to help at the
scene of an automobile accident.
That's why intelligence is no indicator for your likelihood to fall
victim to one of these lapses. You can be subject to undue stress no
matter how smart you are.
Society is more stressful than it used to be, hence the number of
incidents grows. And neither your intelligence, nor your socio-economic
status in life can insulate you from that stress. Maybe if you're
financially well off and well educated you have stress from different
directions than if you're working poor wondering whether your next
paycheck will be enough to pay the baby-sitter. But you still have stress.
Being poor and undeducated just means you have more stress and fewer
tools for dealing with it.
Some have cited those parents who deliberately left children in the car
as irresponsible. Could anyone plausibly argue those parents KNEW and
UNDERSTOOD the risk?
Or argue that had they known the risk, they would still have subjected
their children to intentional harm?
I think not.
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