Reply #229: Maybe I was being a little unfair.... [View All]

[Pert_UK]

I just don't think it makes much sense to ask the question as to why she didn't kill her child in a more humane manner. Asking "Why did she do it this way?" has a different emphasis to, "Why didn't she choose a more painless way of killing her child?". I don't think that there was a lot of choice involved here.

Incidentally, I suspect you could probably dig out something from the Bible that fits this incident - off hand, I recall a passage about "If they right hand offends thee, cut it off and cast it aside" or similar.

Apologies for being harsh on you...I think that I was so shocked by the whole story that I just had a knee-jerk reaction in the wrong direction.