Accidental Wii Suicide

Paul Taylor noted a story that I would have thought to be an April Fool's Day joke a few weeks from now, which makes it only seem more tragic. A 3-year-old shot herself with a gun after mistaking it for a Wii controller.

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Re:Suicide?

[BitZtream]

Did you just wake up to reality or something?

Thats the way it works, at least from one perspective.

He (and she I expect) will punished for doing something so grossly negligent that it resulted in the death of a human being.

That is not to prevent you from doing it again. That is to make it clear that the law is not a joke and will be carried out when the situation occurs.

The law is the deterrent. The law says you'll be punished if you are so grossly negligent that someone gets killed. Its a law that we as a country have more or less agreed on.

The fact that the guilty party here has suffered a side effect of lossing their 3 year old daughter as well is simply extra punishment for them and if you weren't so self centered, you'd maybe think about the fact that not only would being a fuck up like him result in punishment from the law, but also the possibility of hurting someone you love in a way that can never be taken back. You're worried about being punished to deter others and how unfair that might be to you after you've done something so wrong someone has died, and ignoring the fact that a little girl died and will never have the opportunity to be here to have this discussion with you. You sir are an amazingly selfish fuck, but I'm getting off track.

People will do the right thing, sometimes they don't agree on what the right thing is, so we have law that defines it (for the most part) and sets deterrents to get people to do the agreed on 'right thing'. The law deters those who can be detered because they do not like the resulting punishment. For those that it doesn't deter, they get punished. Not to deter you from accidentally shooting someone, to show you that we (the people) are not joking when we say you will be punished for breaking the law, including if it was just sheer ignorance in certain cases were we expect higher standards. His daughters death is simply a twist of fate which they will personally have to deal with in their own way for the rest of their lives, thats simply extra punishment thrown on top by no one other than themselves through their own personal anguish.

I'm glad they will have to suffer through that for the rest of their lives, the 3 year old won't have the option. Do I feel sorry for these people? Certainly, I can't imagine what they are going through. I also don't leave loaded weapons laying around 3 year olds, which prevents me from having to go through this situation.