August 13, 2003
Disposable people
Institutionalized disregard for the wishes of family members has occured in Australia, where they're not sure if they had permission to take ~12,000 body parts for medical research.
Complete apathy toward the well-being of others has reared its ugly head in Ohio, where a drunk mother passed out, allowing her baby to drown in the bathtub. Not much better is the story of a Guatemalan girl whose baby was discovered wrapped in plastic with a bloody tissue stuffed in the back of its throat. Not to be outdone, the French have proved that they can torture kids to death just as well as Americans. When you consider that these people's chances to care for their children is a lot more of an opportunity than this pregnant woman (found dead and naked in an abandoned Philadelphia lot) and her child got, or how the parents involved in a shocking death of an otherwise healthy baby, poisoned by having arsenic put in its bottle while at a party must feel, it makes these stories all the more tragic.
All of these stories convey a lack of basic respect for human life (to some degree or other). But what happens when a person becomes so self-centered, so convinced that other people exist simply for their amusement (and ultimately, when they are through with them, their disposal) that they become sociopathic? The person (or people) who glued an 18-year-old's eyes shut before sodomizing and killing him might have the answer, but if I really wanted to know, I have a feeling I should ask the man who was caught by his common law wife while raping his 8-year-old daughter and as a result, killed them both.
Posted by stupefied
08:45 AM