[Kinda OT; WoW] Infant Daughter Dies as Parents Play Online Game

[The_Universe]

I hope you meant 99.9999999%

That *is* an important decimal point.

 

[Rackhir]

Hmm. And what does the Japan's society at-large think about the needless death of children due to parents' obsession over pachinko?

About the same thing that people think about that sort of tragedy, over here. Mixture of horror at their stupidity and self centeredness, combined with sorrow over the loss.

 

[KenM]

Was'nt there a story a couple of years back out of Korea where a kid died at an internet cafe from playing Starcraft for like 36 hours straght with no breaks?

 

[Ranger REG]

About the same thing that people think about that sort of tragedy, over here. Mixture of horror at their stupidity and self centeredness, combined with sorrow over the loss.

Perhaps, but they seem to take suicides, especially suicides with children, with condonement, at least in the past. I mean it's awful but...

 

[Rackhir]

Perhaps, but they seem to take suicides, especially suicides with children, with condonement, at least in the past. I mean it's awful but...

Er, Pickels and Relish?

I'm guessing that you probably mean they condone suicide? Well yes, that is still an undercurrent in Japanese society. However, I'm not sure what condoning suicide has to do with their reaction to stupid, careless parents leaving children in hot cars in the middle of summer? That's in no way shape or form suicide.

A mother killing her children before she herself commits suicide would be consistent with Japanese culture, but we aren't talking about Parents commiting suicide.

 

[John Crichton]

That *is* an important decimal point.

Oops. Yeah - meant 99._

 

[takyris]

My son is currently asleep in the other room. The baby monitor is on, but I have no idea how much noise a suffocating baby makes. It is possible that I could come into his room tomorrow to find the same thing. So it is not the same as having left him to die of starvation or leaving him in a car in hundred-degree heat. I can imagine a foolish parent thinking that if the baby was asleep and normally slept through the night, there was no reason not to go out.

That said, leaving a baby at home alone is something that should be punished, although if they are anything like most parents, any punishment will fall far short of what has already been set upon them.

 

[Ranger REG]

Er, Pickels and Relish?

Condiments?

FWIW, "Condonation" is probably the more appropriate noun, though I should have easily typed "tolerance."

 

[RedShirtNo5]

My son is currently asleep in the other room. The baby monitor is on, but I have no idea how much noise a suffocating baby makes. It is possible that I could come into his room tomorrow to find the same thing.

When our son was that age, we had sensor that would go off if it didn't detect any motion/vibration for certain period of time.
We'd take him out of the crib to feed him and forget to turn off the sensor, and 30 seconds later the alarm would go off. Annoying at 3am, but still worthwhile.

-RedShirt