Agreed. Any legislation will simply add to the burden of “good” parenting, thus discouraging even more people from having kids.
You know, the costs of having kids has increased dramatically over the past 30 years. A period when the cost of almost all manufactured products has dropped relative to income, as well as services such as international beach holiday travel. Education, medicine, and housing have increased relative to income. Everything else has gotten cheaper.
Atlas is shrugging, Abelard. Divorce, custody, alimony, child support, lawsuits and felony convictions. Whose life is so bereft of drama they need take-on all that?
As a rule of thumb, any law named after a crime victim is a bad idea. This seems especially true if the victim was a child.
Parenting Bill Cosby’s way… “I can take you out and make another one just like you.”
People occasionally get away with murder. More laws are not the answer.
Reason No. 98,465,321 why I’m glad I didn’t have children. On the other hand, at my age my kids would already be grown up and I’d be facing having to worry about us or them being jailed for my grandkids getting into trouble. Okay, that’s Reason No. 98,465,322…
I think legislators should seriously consider making it illegal to murder a child. That should put an end to this kind of thing.
But as to the article’s complaint that it’s not possible to determine the time of death to that level of accuracy, we could implant little computer chips in kids that record vital functions, GPS location, glucose levels (to prepare for future laws against giving kids sugar), and even make short audio and video recordings if blood pressure or heart rate indicate extreme stress. It would be like a blackbox flight recorder for people.
Then we could have the chip talk bluetooth to nearby cell phones for automatic reporting to the police. To handle the volume of information the state could use a massive computer AI to monitor the health of the human population in real time, perhaps one day even having the chips automatically inject mood stabilizers or sedatives that would promote public order, and stimulates to make sure everybody wakes up in the morning.
The chip could even act as a built-in lie detector, notifying nearby people that they’re being lied to. Perhaps people could even off load lots of their daily decision making to the state’s AI. If need be, the AI could reward and punish our behavior with opiates and electric shocks, helping those who are deviant to conform more easily to societal norms. The chips could even combat obesity by calculating calories and locking the mouth shut when sufficient nutritional supplements have been consumed.
Then society could enjoy an unprecedented period of peace, harmony, and justice, and nothing like the tragedy of Caylee need happen again.
Shorter version: Obviously the state needs better control over people.
Exactly. In my proposed future world, we wouldn’t be thinking that the prosecutors, judge, jury, forensics investigators, and legal pundits are all a bunch of freakin’ morons. We’d blame such an outcome on a sensor failure and propose upgrades that would reduce our personal freedom even further. I swear on the grave of Karl Marx, it’ll work!
Agreed. Any legislation will simply add to the burden of “good” parenting, thus discouraging even more people from having kids.
You know, the costs of having kids has increased dramatically over the past 30 years. A period when the cost of almost all manufactured products has dropped relative to income, as well as services such as international beach holiday travel. Education, medicine, and housing have increased relative to income. Everything else has gotten cheaper.
Atlas is shrugging, Abelard. Divorce, custody, alimony, child support, lawsuits and felony convictions. Whose life is so bereft of drama they need take-on all that?
As a rule of thumb, any law named after a crime victim is a bad idea. This seems especially true if the victim was a child.
Parenting Bill Cosby’s way… “I can take you out and make another one just like you.”
People occasionally get away with murder. More laws are not the answer.
Reason No. 98,465,321 why I’m glad I didn’t have children. On the other hand, at my age my kids would already be grown up and I’d be facing having to worry about us or them being jailed for my grandkids getting into trouble. Okay, that’s Reason No. 98,465,322…
I think legislators should seriously consider making it illegal to murder a child. That should put an end to this kind of thing.
But as to the article’s complaint that it’s not possible to determine the time of death to that level of accuracy, we could implant little computer chips in kids that record vital functions, GPS location, glucose levels (to prepare for future laws against giving kids sugar), and even make short audio and video recordings if blood pressure or heart rate indicate extreme stress. It would be like a blackbox flight recorder for people.
Then we could have the chip talk bluetooth to nearby cell phones for automatic reporting to the police. To handle the volume of information the state could use a massive computer AI to monitor the health of the human population in real time, perhaps one day even having the chips automatically inject mood stabilizers or sedatives that would promote public order, and stimulates to make sure everybody wakes up in the morning.
The chip could even act as a built-in lie detector, notifying nearby people that they’re being lied to. Perhaps people could even off load lots of their daily decision making to the state’s AI. If need be, the AI could reward and punish our behavior with opiates and electric shocks, helping those who are deviant to conform more easily to societal norms. The chips could even combat obesity by calculating calories and locking the mouth shut when sufficient nutritional supplements have been consumed.
Then society could enjoy an unprecedented period of peace, harmony, and justice, and nothing like the tragedy of Caylee need happen again.
Shorter version: Obviously the state needs better control over people.
Exactly. In my proposed future world, we wouldn’t be thinking that the prosecutors, judge, jury, forensics investigators, and legal pundits are all a bunch of freakin’ morons. We’d blame such an outcome on a sensor failure and propose upgrades that would reduce our personal freedom even further. I swear on the grave of Karl Marx, it’ll work!
George,
Don’t give them any ideas.
Abelard, I think you underestimate “them.”