February 15, 2005
Pill Popper
Boy who claimed pills made him pop a cap in grandma and grandpa ain't foolin' anyone...
In another small victory for common sense, a jury has decided that a then 12-year-old boy who killed his grandparents, torched their house, then drove away and told people he'd been kidnapped was guilty of murder, and not excused from it because he was taking Zoloft and clearly nuts out of his gourd.
This case is a cornucopia of dysfunctionality. First of all, who gives a 12-year an anti-depressant? We are creating a pharmacological nightmare among our youth - if it's not Zoloft, it's Ritalin. How on earth did the human race function before they were able to medicate us all into torpid sedation? Much less as children? A child needs Zoloft? How about a bike? An ant farm? An active interest from a loving parent?
And what is this defense team thinking? This kids problems started with the Zoloft? Is there not a behavioral problem underlying the reason they tried to medicate him in the first place? It's pretty clear this kid had problems before the helpful people with the prescription pad came into the picture.
The jury at least saw through this - this isn't Rainman leaving the tub water on too hot, this is a person who was upset at having been disciplined, shooting his grandparents, burning the house down, and trying to concoct a story to cover up for the crime.
Why is it that people who don't know right from wrong don't go around doing random GOOD things? You never hear about someone who doesn't know right from wrong going and working for free down at the shelter because they don't know any better, or saving someone from a burning building because they don't know any better. No, they are always slaughtering another human being because they don't know any better.
Witness the woman in Texas who chopped her daughters arms off. They actually had a hearing to determine if she was sane. Huh? Need a hearing? There is inherent insanity in that act that will never have a rational, sane motive. But why did her mental state manifest itself thusly? Why didn't she collapse from exhaustion from making cookies for her neighbors? Why didn't she get arrested for writing large checks to charities with funds she didn't have? No, her inability to discern right from wrong exclusively manifested itself in doing wrong.
The narcissism behind most of these acts is obscured by our attempts to understand or explain a selfish evil that is inexplicable and unknowable...
Posted by MEC2 at February 15, 2005 10:06 PM