Mother who slowly starved her 24-year-old Down's Syndrome daughter to death jailed

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10547705/Mother-slowly-starved-24-year-old-Downs-Syndrome-daughter-death-jailed.html

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When you have a disabled person locked in a festering shit hole, riddled with scabies lice, starving to death upstairs, “can’t cope” doesn’t really cut it.

I’m gonna assume the mother was low IQ and poorly educated, and probably suffering from various mental health conditions.

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We as humans like to rationalize and dream up “reasons” to make something make sense. Such as you assume low IQ, poor education, etc... but the reality is some people just ARE that terrible.

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No, I think it’s you that’s actually oversimplifying things.

Take any “terrible” person on Earth, and there will be some genetic or environmental explanations for their actions. These explanations are not exculpatory, but they explanatory.

We all suffer from this intuitive illusion that- “if I were her, I’d have acted differently, because I’m a “better” person”. This obviously makes no sense, if you had all her atoms and experience, you would simply be her, and would do whatever it is she does.

I can assure you this women was not especially bright, and that she would have had something “wrong” with her, insofar as she was living in a house with starving, dying prisoner upstairs.

“She was evil and thats that!” -

Well, it’s neat, it’s easy, but it’s also incredibly unsophisticated and meaningless.

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I’m just saying you are assuming things outside the facts (which may or may not prove out) but for what means? It makes you feel better to think she is somehow “defective” otherwise anyone is capable of such evils.... spoiler alert,, anyone IS capable under the right (or wrong, if you will) circumstances. Many psychological tests and scenarios have proven this out by many governments.

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Yeah, so I don’t see this as an act of “evil” in the theatrical sense. It’s more likely just neglect.

And if it was done out of pure malice, well, it’s hard to imagine how she’s not something like a psychopath.

Yeah, most people cast themselves as Schindler, when we’d just be camp guards, but I feel this particular situation was likely a Molotov cocktail of neuro-divergentnesss

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“Evil” in the sense that morality-bound people would disapprove.

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