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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah I cannot believe the hate these parents are getting. It is crazy. But then I never feel that sort of hate/hysteria that people feel toward parents who have a tragic accident, hot car deaths, etc. for which they are responsible even though accidental. [/quote] The details matter. As a general rule I have nothing but empathy for people who lose a child, it is my worst nightmare. And no one is perfect, we all make mistakes. But sometimes the details are too upsetting to maintain that empathy, because the parents have not merely made a mistake but committed an act of negligence. I was abused and neglected as a kid by very immature, selfish parents who had kids too young. In that situation, my empathy goes to the kids, not the parents. And that's where it lands here. This isn't a case of a parent being exhausted or understandably distracted and then a child going somewhere the parent could never have expected and dying. That does happen. This was just neglect. A 3 year old was ignored by his dad, who was watching basketball and placing bets online, and left to access an open pool via unlocked doors, and the dad didn't check on him for almost ten full minutes at which point he was dead. That's neglect. This is like a parent having a loaded gun in the house and then letting their toddler rifle through the closet where it's kept. It's not an accident, it's not understandable. It's neglect. The dad left his son to die. It's like that hot car death from last year (also Arizona) where the dad intentionally left a child to nap in a car while he went inside to play video games and drink in the middle of the day. It's neglect. These dads killed their kids. It deserves criticism. People need to know that if you do this, other people aren't just going to shrug and forgive you, oh well $hit happens. You need to try harder. You owe it to your children to try harder.[/quote]
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