Mentally ill or developmentally challenged people might not have enough knowledge of the world to know that, and lack the ability or social network to find out. Don't blame the woman, blame the people and society who wasn't there for her.
You don't even know anything about this woman, and you're going to hoist the blame for her actions onto all society? That's utterly delusional. Circumstance does not absolve you of responsibility for your actions. She's still a murderer.
You don't even know anything about her or the circumstances, yet you're putting all the blame on her. That, MSH, is completely unempathic. There are reasons for everything people do, and if you want to think of yourself as a thinking, humane being, you should try to understand them, not give in to some gut reaction about how horrible they are. If you want to think of them as monsters, fine, but the real world doesn't work like that. It doesn't go in black and white.
I mean, iirc, you once stated outright that you would kill people for breaking into your house, and justified that with it being self defence. Does those circumstances excuse you of kurder?
I mean people, there's a thing called a orphanage people, give a baby a chance.
And the worst part is in some places, like NY state, you can literally leave it in the hospital you had it. No questions asked. The epitome of lazyness. And the worst part of THAT is it Still happens..
People don't leave babies at hospitals because they're lazy, Misko. They leave them because they can't take care of them.
I'm aware of that. My problem is that it is so damn easy to get rid of it if you shouldn't/can't have it, killing it is completely unnecssary. There really is no excuse. I mean no fault, just drop it off. Your parents will hate you? Only a teenager not yet with a job? Husband ran off? They don't care. It's not like anyone has never heard of Orphanages, and even adandoing the baby is substantially better then infanticide.
It's pretty much the point of orphanages. THE ENTIRE POINT IS GETTING RID OF BABIES.
I'm not blaming the woman. I'm just saying it doesn't excuse baby murder, especially considering the alternatives are easily accesible and well-known.
You are assuming all people are as mentally stable and able as we are. In the vast majority of these cases, that is not how it is. Not very surprisingly, that's not why they aren't acting rationally. Nenjin said before that "killing your baby is something you do when you want to hide it". Perhaps. But having the baby in a Walmart toilet before drowning it is not what you do if you expect get away with infanticide, at least not if you have the faintest idea of your surroundings. It's what you do when you have no clue of what to do. It's completely irrational, from any viewpoint.