If you thought the other mother was messed up...

[Dr Strangelove]

This just goes to show: if you're getting to the point that you can't stand your kid and you think you might lose control, hand them off to a friend or even the social worker instead.

[DRoseDARs]

Unless, of course, your local hardware store is having a sale on axes that is too good to pass up. Hell, this mother was loving enough to try also buying a teddy bear for her infant. But she didn't have enough money to buy both...

[MrFun]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
Her confession doesn't match up to the symptoms of postpartum depression.

Doesn't matter to me. I cannot let my primal emotions cloud my judgement by screaming, "EYE FOR AN EYE" over and over again.

[bipolarbear]

Crack does tend to make you a bit crazy.

[Dinner]

Kyeimah is the type of name you'd expect a mother high on crack to come up with.

[MrFun]

It doesn't matter to me if the woman was mentally competent or not when she killed her child -- I would still be against a death sentence.

[Kidlicious]

With all the crack whores with their crack babies I'm suprised this has only happened once.

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by MrFun
It doesn't matter to me if the woman was mentally competent or not when she killed her child -- I would still be against a death sentence.

Even if keeping her alive meant taking away the taxpayer's money?

[MrFun]

Yes -- because IMO, using taxpayer's money to avoid the barbaric pratice of capital punishment is a lesser evil to preserve a greater good. In this case, the greater good is being a more civilized nation rather than praticing "eye for an eye."

[MrFun]

Let me know if this sounds like taking my position to too far of an extreme, but capital punishment could be seen as a cultural pratice that belongs with other uncivilized pratices found in primitive cultures, such as cannabalism, human sacrifice, infanticide, and so forth.

Is that too extreme of an argument for my position?

[Dinner]

How the hell does a piece of **** mother have a crack baby and not get the child taken away?

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by MrFun
Let me know if this sounds like taking my position to too far of an extreme, but capital punishment could be seen as a cultural pratice that belongs with other uncivilized pratices found in primitive cultures, such as cannabalism, human sacrifice, infanticide, and so forth.

Is that too extreme of an argument for my position?

Yes.

[MrFun]

Ok, why would that be too much of an extreme of an argument for my position? Where is the fallacy?

I guess I'm testing an argument for my anti-capital punishment position because I have not thought of this particular argument before.

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by MrFun
Yes -- because IMO, using taxpayer's money to avoid the barbaric pratice of capital punishment is a lesser evil to preserve a greater good. In this case, the greater good is being a more civilized nation rather than praticing "eye for an eye."

Let's assume that this mother has absolutely no chance of improving and becoming a real person. Why should she drain on the tax payer's money? Why should a murderer, drug-addict, be kept alive, and drain on the efforts of some family in suburban America, with nice and kind people? Why should she live?

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by MrFun
Ok, why would that be too much of an extreme of an argument for my position? Where is the fallacy?

I guess I'm testing an argument for my anti-capital punishment position because I have not thought of this particular argument before.

It's stupid to compare human sacrifice to capital punishment. There is a large difference between killing innocent people in a cruel way, and killing mass-murderers in a pain-free way.