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To: Skooz
They were shopping at WalMart, not patrolling the backstreets of Beirut.

And that attitude is the problem. It's a store, not a playground.

And kids often get very ancy when they are in the cart for too long. Then, it's perfectly ok to let the kid out to walk around.

No. It's not.

Nothing in the article suggests that the little guy was not "under control." He was 5 feet away. That is about one and a half steps. Any closer and they would have been tripping over one another.

5 feet away is not under Moms control.

To suggest that the mother deserved to lose her 3 year old because they were walking together at WalMart is beyond callous. It borders on psychotic.

I said no such thing. You are using emotion to argue against common sense.

79 posted on 07/24/2006 8:02:00 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: DJ MacWoW
And that attitude is the problem. It's a store, not a playground.

Nothing, nothing, nothing in the article suggests the mother approached the store as a "playground." That is your invention.

No. It's not.

Yes. It is.

5 feet away is not under Moms control.

Yes. It is. Five feet is an arm's reach away. I suppose she should have just carried him everywhere at all times.

I said no such thing. You are using emotion to argue against common sense.

You blame the mother for her child's death. Yet, you have no idea what happened. Yet, you stand in judgment of this poor woman whose 3 year old is dead due to a freak accident. I am using common sense to argue against callous judgementalism.

82 posted on 07/24/2006 8:06:46 AM PDT by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
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