(June 2, 2016 at 10:47 pm)Aroura Wrote:(June 2, 2016 at 10:21 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: I do not understand the black/white thinking. The parent made a mistake, I don't think that makes her negligent. Again, how many good parents have lost their child in a grocery store or a mall?I agree, it doesn't make her a bad parent, but it does, or should imo, make her at least partly responsible.
If you are a great parent, and you are outside while a neighbor is preparing to paint his garage, and your 3 year old manages to grab the paintbrush in the bucket and slaps it on the guys Mercedes while your attention is momentarily diverted, guess who is financiallying responsible for the damage?
Yes, things happen. AND truly good people admit their mistakes and do what they can to make reparations. If a child caused a pet to die on accident, there are still financial penelties. Shouldn't this have something similar?
What is she financially responsible for? I get it that you should pay a couple of hundred or grand for a new paint job or some sort of reparations for the loss of life of a pet.
Should she buy the zoo a new gorilla? I don't think the answer here is that she should have her life ruined by being on the hook for the millions of dollars it would cost to buy a new gorilla for the zoo. I'm sure it's expensive.
The zoo killed their own animal, remember.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<---
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<---
