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Maybe semantics, but what you're calling 'stupid' I'm calling 'terrible'. I definitely agree with you that there are a lot of people who have kids who shouldn't. But is our standard of parental care so low that we're calling 'forgetting to take your baby out of the car' just 'stupid'?
Your fundamental responsibility as a parent is the best interests of your child, everything else must be secondary. If you can't follow that one simple rule then opt not to have kids until you can. I don't see this kind of negligence as simply a demonstration of an individual's stupidity. I'd say it's what divides people between being basically decent or... terrible.
As an aside, that article was garbage in my opinion. What a totally manipulative piece.
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The only problem is that this guy in the article was a good father who made one terrible mistake. I don't know if that puts him in the category of terrible person.
The guy in the original post is a terrible person.
I don't want to pull the "you have to have kids to understand" card but parents
can get distracted. They
can be forgetful. For most parents this leads to harmless situations. A few shouts from Mom to find her kid who wandered off while she wasn't looking. Forgetting to pick up your son at preschool. Forgetting to lock up your tool box only to have your kid get into it and the subsequent trip to the hospital for stitches.
His forgetfulness lead to the death of his child.
As for the article being a "totally manipulative piece". I don't know what you were expecting from an article titled, "Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?"