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The unthinkable: a 17-yr-old at the Tate in London threw a 6-yr.-old French tourist off the 10th floor balcony

Zeno Lorea said:
Who be such a wussy about it and let him get away so lightly? Let him spend a life behind bars. There is no greater punishment.
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Hmmm. That would be an interesting test. We ask a psychopath whether he would choose life imprisonment over the death penalty, and when he chooses prison, execute him to add to the disappointment. That would seem like the greater punishment indeed if he averred from it.

Of course, if he's insane, could he make a rational decision?

Unfortunately, it's not acid/base titration. Lots of insane killers in fact function quite well in normal social standards, or at least don't stand out.

Somehow, we have contorted criminal insanity to mean some kind of unaccountability. Plenty of the criminally insane are fully aware of how unacceptable murder is, but we somehow give them a pass because they are allegedly not capable of being accountable because they do act irrationally. Being irrational does not mean one is not capable of evil, or of understanding the full consequences of one's actions.

If he's too dangerous to ever be let out of prison/asylum ever again, then what is the point really? Are we helping him by giving him some coloring books and juice and locking him in his room for 70 years so he can die "naturally."

Put him down. End it.

If society were allowed to vote on sentencing, I'm pretty sure he'd be a dead man right now in France, public policy notwithstanding.
 
Harke the Boeotarch said:
Our sanity is slipping from overpopulation. Not sure if I'm joking.
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No, you're NOT joking. Many areas of this planet, indeed, are exceedingly overpopulated. This planet simply cannot withstand the number of human beings that reside on it, with all of the energy and food that they require. "Mother Nature" is fighting back with more horrific cyclones (typhoons/hurricanes, flooding, droughts-and-fires, and tornadoes) than in the past, and no indication that it will abate any time soon.

It was probably in the 1980s that I read somewhere about a study done with rats. Rats, though living in a far more limited "world view" that what we have, are likewise sentient and thinking beings, including structuring of their social order, and using limited strategy, etc. The study showed that rats, if forced to live in a situation with extreme overpopulation, begin to turn upon each other, and the situation fosters much more antisocial behaviours.

Humans react the same way with extreme overpopulation. Ever notice how the worst things that happen to people, involving predatory actions of human-versus-human, happen in the big cities?

GayMan321 said:
When you read or hear something like this on the news you say to yourself why on earth would another person do such a terrible thing really come on
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I've said MANY times (nearly as often as I've wished I'd been born Canadian, lol) that eventually I'll go to my grave, NEVER being able to understand how humans can be so horrible toward others of their type.

NotHardUp1 said:
Such an unimaginable horror. Just to think of the shock of being told your young child was thrown off a building.

I guess it's doubly fortunate that the boy survived. If he'd been killed instantly, it's not hard to imagine the father taking vengeance with no hesitation. It would be a blind rage indeed.
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But at the time the father surely thought, at least for a few minutes, that his son WAS killed. The boy had a type of fall that is virtually NEVER survived by any human being, with nothing (such as the foliage of a tree) to break or slow his fall. The boy landed on a roof, which was certainly not accessible to the public, and somebody had to be put "on duty" to go up there to whatever locked door(s) led to the roof. I very much doubt that the boy was moving at all during this time.
 
^ Good article. Nice to read of his progress.

I'm glad Jonty didn't get off on a technicality.
 
It is good to read that the boy appears to be moving toward a happy life anyway.
 
HoodedRat said:
Maybe the combination of the godawful building, and the talentless shite on display within, was too much to cope with and pushed the guy over the edge ... so he pushed the kid over the edge?
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From the BBC article on the attempted murder: "The Tate Modern was the most visited tourist attraction in the United Kingdom in 2018, according to the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions. The group said the gallery welcomed 5.9 million people last year."

Depressing thought. The National Gallery records 5.0 million visitors for that year. And this:

news.artnet.com

Tate Modern Surpassed the British Museum to Become London's Most-Attended Art Institution in 2018 | Artnet News

London museums saw a six percent increase in attendance across the board last year after a significant period of decline.
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BBC news site
I can't find the original thread
But any excuse for good news

The family of a young boy who was left with life-threatening injuries after he was thrown from the 10th floor of London's Tate Modern art gallery have said their "little knight" has achieved his goal of being able to run, jump, and swim again.
 
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