(August 1, 2015 at 7:07 pm)abaris Wrote: Yeah, but how can you forget a child or any being you're supposed to care for in a potentially dangerous situation? How can you forget they are with you? How can you not notice they are with you? Other than simply not caring enough to remember or notice?
If you are married, I hope, for your sake, that your wife is more forgiving if you ever forget your wedding anniversary.
Look, read the damn article at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/...story.html
It has nothing whatsoever to do with how much one cares about one's children. If you are imagining that, you have no clue at all about what is going on. Forgetting something is not the same as not caring about something. Please reread the previous sentence a couple of times until its meaning is assimilated.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.