(August 1, 2015 at 11:46 am)Chad32 Wrote: If I was in charge of police patrols, I'd have them patrolling parking lots from June through September. If anyone catching a kid in a car, make the parent sit in there for ten minutes or so to get it through their heads.
Punishment is irrelevant because it is not intentional. They don't do it because they want their children to suffer, they do it because they forget. Punishment does not cause human memory to be better. For more, see:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/...story.html
No amount of punishment would make any difference at all for parents unintentionally leaving their children in their cars.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
