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The grieving parents of a 7-year-old child who died hours after being hit by a car were charged with involuntary manslaughter after allowing him and his brother, 10, to walk home unaccompanied by an adult from a nearby grocery store.

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[–] GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Explain normal? If this was a street inside a subdivision, I would totally understand. Speed limit on that road is 45mph

  1. Either come up with engineering to stop from 45mph to 0mph in a dime
  2. Take care of your kids, watch the surrounding, be vigilant else don't have kids
[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 1 points 19 hours ago

You should have learned in driver's ed that the speed limit is the maximum possible speed you should ever go under ideal driving conditions. If there are children on the side of the road, anyone with half a brain knows that the speed limit is probably far too fast, and you should slow the hell down.

It's all good to say that you're following the law, but if you don't use basic common sense, then it is your fault when you kill a small child. The driver isn't going to be charged, but that doesn't mean what they did is okay, and it's really sad that you think it is.

Yeah, there just need to be places where its okay for anyone to murder children. These filthy fucking europeans just don't understand, because of their low birth rates, but as proud r strategists, americans need to be able to kill some of their children, and must have robust mechanisms for culling the weak.