What is is with people?!
Sometimes, I feel as old the proverbial codgers in my new contributor’s first article, A Sound Solution to an Age Old Problem — and I am only 30. Or already. Where is it they sell those designer Depends?
It hurts me more than it hurts you!
But the point is, in my day, women didn’t indiscriminately kill their own children — much less stab themselves in the belly to rid the world of their fetuses on account of a lover’s spat.
This particular mother of the week (at the rate this is going), Fang Chi-Xue, an unprepossessing Chinese immigrant from Quincy, Massachusetts, ended up fatally poisoning and stabbing her 9-year old daughter, attempting to strangle the victim’s 14-year old sister, all before proceeding to kill her 7 and 1/2-month fetus by turning the knife on herself — or, more to the point, her own abdomen.
Which did, in fact, result in what could be dubbed a VERY late term abortion.
Unfortunately for taxpayers — and the woman herself, if whatever therapy she receives ever snaps her out of her murderous rage — Chi-Xue survived. Currently undergoing her 20-day competency evaluation, I wouldn’t wish her plight on anyone. Whatever prompted her to do this has to be horrific, so, if she is still in the throes of it, I can only imagine the demons ravaging her mind.
And if she had gotten herself more or less to an aware condition… well, there I won’t even try to imagine her denizens of Hell.
What is it that makes people go crazy in quite such a destructive way? Is it the media, for constantly highlighting similar horrors? Is it society for not going far enough to pick up on the dangerous cues of the criminally insane? The economy, for plunging everyone into a depression of a very personal sort? Or it just the Apocalypse growing nigh?
The answer is probably going to be “YES” to at least one of the above questions — but which, will ultimately depend on who you ask. So, what do YOU think? Comment away.
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