Andrea Yates verdict - huh?

[Occhidiangela]

Tell me, can you control yourself if your child is going to die and there is nothing that you can do about it?

I sure as hell wouldn't try to cause my child to die by drowning her, or him, in the bathtub, which is what this whole thread is about in the first place.

Drowning not just one, but FIVE, of your own kids, your own flesh and blood, in a bathtub, one after the other, and chasing a few of them around the house when they realized what was going on and tried to flee . . . you see, even children have an instinct for self preservation.

If someone was trying to kill my kids, I am not sure if I'd be in control, or a raving loony, but I know how to swing a stick, bat, or fire a weapon, depending on the tools at hand.

Killing people is not necessarily an act of pure irrationality. It depends on the killer, and on the circumstances. Methodically rounding up your kids to drown them used to be called some very simple words:

Evil, Murder, Manslaughter, Infanticide, Filicide.

Mad dogs are put down, so should Filicidal maniacs.

There, we are back on topic, so let's take this PPD and PPP and PPPark it. :whistling:

Occhi