by Bill Corden
At last, a step towards holding society to account for the actions of mentally disturbed killers. The parents sentenced to jail.
I’ve always had the opinion that these nutcases must have shown their danger to other members of the public on the way to committing these awful crimes.
Time after time we see that the perpetrators have been in and out of mental institutions, thrown out of schools for antisocial behaviour, threats of violence on the internet. Yet they are given a clean bill of health by psychiatrists and psychologists, protected by doting parents who refuse to face the truth.
It’s about time that schools, professional counsellors and the professionals involved in treating these malevolent scourges are held to account for their roles in allowing them to remain at loose in day to day life.
The mental health act has to be changed to allow for easier sequestering of mentally disturbed maniacs because up ’til now it’s a litany of arguments for their rights to freedom under the constitution.
Where has ANY politician even mentioned the possibility of a change to the act?
In the meantime the onus should be placed on the authority figures that interact with them to legally report the potential public danger under penalty of the law.
No one can argue that the people responsible for these slaughters in the past had not given enough warnings in the way of their behaviours to warrant their arrest prior to the crimes.
Maybe this sentencing will wake people up.
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4 Responses
We are incapable of proritizing properly because our value systems are mushy, muddied, and vague in application.
We preach ‘why’ but fail in teaching ‘how’.
And we are flummoxed when values clash.
I should add that it would make these psychiatrists , psychologists and school counsellors sit up and take notice if they thought they would be legally liable for the harm caused by their patients/charges.
There are already liabilities for individuals within companies and social organizations that can see them imprisoned for negligence in the workplace, notwithstanding the fact they they are employees .
Human behavior is hard to predict, even for the ‘experts’. Your cure would be much worse than the crime. Locking people up on the basis of suspicions is not right. Punishment for negligence would be another matter.
I’m not saying that it’s a cure , just that it might ne one of the building blocks.
We’ve held the tobacco companies and the drug companies vicariously responsible for damage to the wellbeing of the population, so why not try to find a sore spot for the authorities failure to protect us from these evils. Obviously gun control doesn’t work.