Shodan
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swiss said:People seem to be claiming that this woman is sane, and only pleeding insanity so she wont be shut away. If so, then under what circumstances, do MOTHERS kill their CHILDREN>?
When this kinda case comes along, it is obvious that she is most likely to be mentally ill, because people dont like killing their own children, therefore you dont really have any explanation as to why there would be a motive for here to kill her baby child; which means that she was too ill to know what she was doing.
Also people seem to be very shocked about this, especially because it was only a baby. I dont understand why it should be more shocking than the burning to death of an adult. The fact that its a baby, means that it would not have feared its death and had no idea of the world around it, it also had no future aspirations because its too young.
Therefore I think the killing of a baby, is better than the killing of an adult; because the mental capacities of babies, are far less developed then an adult.
That said of course it is still sad, just at least she didnt burn an actual person to death...
Post-natal depression, could cause a mother to hate or kill her child, its a bit naive saying that the only reason that she would of killed her child, is because she is mentally ill.
It also seems like you are suggesting, that;
A. a baby does not count as a person.
B. it doesn't really matter that a baby should die.
Correct me if I'm wrong, thats what it looks like to me though.