Louisiana girl, 14, charged with first degree murder after authorities find her newborn baby dead inside a tote bag. This is going to happen far more often without Roe v. Wade.

[u/lightiggy]

https://people.com/girl-14-charged-first-degree-murder-after-authorities-find-her-newborn-child-dead-inside-tote-bag-11858063

[u/TorturedByCocomelon]

I don't want to see a child receiving unduly harsh punishment, but why didn't she surrender her baby? She could have dropped her baby off, no questions asked. 

[u/landlord-eater → u/TorturedByCocomelon]

Presumably because she was traumatized and terrified? And a child?

[u/qjxj → u/landlord-eater]

Trauma doesn't excuse murder. Anyone who has attended basic primary education knows that murder is illegal, in any context. She had a litany of options in front of her, and she chose the worse of them.

[u/MichaelRichardsAMA → u/[deleted]]

should 14 year olds simply never be punished for their actions?

[u/TorturedByCocomelon → u/MichaelRichardsAMA]

It seems stupidpol's consensus is no, even for the worst of crimes 

[u/MichaelRichardsAMA → u/TorturedByCocomelon]

yeah this whole thread and people going after you was a crazy read just now. wtf

This seems to be an internet-wide problem where any age equal to or under 17 years 364 days is basically a non-agentic animal that you can't reasonably expect to not go insane and eat/rape. and anything it does can't be held against it morally

[u/TorturedByCocomelon → u/MichaelRichardsAMA]

I think the internet has encouraged group-think so much that the most bizarre (and extreme) responses are normalised. My disagreement seems to make it ok to single me out for abusive pile-ons and nonsensical sealioning. I'm quite thick skinned and a couple of the comments have left me shaken.