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Originally Posted by Locke
Yes, I know. What I'm saying is that theres got to be something in it for someone.
Locking this woman away doesnt seem like its going to provide a whole lot of value to anyone considering the situation and really the only thing they can lay their hat on is that they're enforcing the rules.
Effectively, the state is going to lock this woman away to enforce the law of manslaughter or neglect causing death in order to provide an example to others of the readily apparent dangers of being an idiot.
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Ah, yeah I should have picked up your point there.
It's certainly a weird situation. On the one hand there's the 'she's suffered enough' argument, but at the same time there is this sense of a need to punish (assuming her actions rise to that level). The motivation for that desire to punish is sort of strange here though, is it really going to act as a deterrent? I wouldn't think so, and I don't think people are going to be using it as some sort of loophole to get rid of annoying little brats, so what's the overall benefit? To say we enforced the law I guess. I don't know, certainly a weird one.