It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I just couldn't imagine hitting a child. But in 'The Slap' it's an extreme situation. You have to ask yourself - would you step in if a child was out of control?
It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully.
Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.
If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.
I am convinced that, because the criminal justice system is run by humans, it is naturally subject to human error. There is no rational basis to believe that this same type of human error will not infect capital murder trials.
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.
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