dbuman said:
Emotion has nothing to do with getting rid of this man. History can repeat in most cases, and his temper may get the best of him once again. Getting rid of him would Directly diminish the chances of this happening again to someone else by his hand. Preventing another occurance that was based on genetics rather than psychological alterations is the goal, so if it means ending his life to save more lives, so be it.
It has everything to do with emotions. Its a wide phenomenon among women. When a child is killed, especially murdered, or when a child is harmed or put through pain, women tend to feel sorry for them. Women have an easier time then men symphathizing(sp?) with other human beings, especially children, and want to protect them. I'm not saying the same doesn't hold true for men, but it happends more so, and stronger, for women.
That is what you call mother instinct. To protect those younger. Its nothing you can help, and is partially due to the way you're raised. But its mostly due to hormones. You'd be chocked knowing how much of the human functions, feelings, and even the way we think and act, that is controlled entirely by hormones. It is one of the strongest, and in some cases dangerous, substances that affect our body at a daily basis.
It also have a great effect on our development while we're still an embryo, and affects the way our brain developes. One kind of hormone strenghtens the sympathy, making some have more and some less. You might think this is off topic, but it really isn't.
You can say Windy (and most other humans), together with murderers who just kill someone without even caring, are two opposites on the same line. For most people, they have sympathy, and can sympathize with others, kind of like a natural wall that stops us from hurting other people. One hormone (can't think of the english name for the life of me), greatly affects the human's need for competition. Both women and men have this, but men have more of it. This hormone raises reflexes, and makes us more persistend and competitive, giving us benefit in a contest. It also makes us take larger risks, and people who produce "too much" of it, can get careless.
You can say the hormone also makes you more aggressive, as it makes you more competitive. When you get angry and upset, hormones and other substances once again comes in to play, and can temporarily "remove" the barrier, or atleast push it forward. If you, for an example, find some other guy kissing your woman, you can get pissed off, and go hit him. That'd be hormones affecting you.
So let's say the guy was playing a competitive video game. He had a lot of hormones in his body, and he might be one of the people who produce too much of it, making him take stupid risks. Then his baby comes in, and pulls the cord to it, making it fall to the floor. He now had a lot of hormones in his body, affecting his temper as he'd be much easier to upset. He might also have a harder time sympathizing with people as a result of being exposed to a lot of the specific hormone durinng his time as an embryo. This caused him to overreact and hit the baby.
He wasn't thinking, it was a spontaneous act. While yes, he was the person who commited the act, resulting in the loss of his baby. He doesn't need to "have a screw lose", or be in any way less normal then your average man. He just had to have been exposed to more or less of certain hormones during the time in which his brain was created, and during his period of which he was still developing. All of this together would make him, too, a victim of himself.
Windy, on the other hand, would be further to the left of this line. Being a woman, she was naturally born with a brain more capable of sympathizing with other humans. It benefits women greatly, as they are normally the ones taking care of the children and raising them. Women take care of the children more, not because of discrimination, but because nature created us that way. We're constantly controlled by hormones and other substances, just like any other animal is. And its hard to resist it, and impossible to completely remove.
Anyway, moving on, where was I... Aah, right.
As Windy have a brain more capable of smpathizing, she immediatly puts herself in the possition of the dead baby. She, herself, mentioned that the baby won't get to learn to ride a bike etc. She synpathizes with the baby, and understands the situation. She's emotional about it. She feels sorry for it, and want to protect it. But don't worry, that's completely normal for a woman to do, as its the way humans were created.
It affects us all the time, from childood, to young adults, to adults, to death. We might think we act on our own, but we "feel" the hormone levels in our bodies, and act accordingly. We're also driven by other things. We "feel" we're hungry, and act accordingly. We feel we need to drink, and act accordingly. We feel a sex drive, and reproduce.
Taking this in to consideration, atleast from my point of view, you'd see why it would be wrong to kill the person in question. While yes, it can happen again, it isn't very likely, as he can, to some extent, learn to controll it. Anger, and a lot of other stuff, are controllable. His hormone levels are not. Isn't it wrong to kill a person who him, himself, is his own victim? I'm sure he feels regret over what he's done, and thus, he will most likely try his hardest to not let it happen again.
While men have a harder time most of the time sympathizing, that doesn't mean we lack it. We still have emotions and can sympathize, but everyone isn't as good at it. That's why it is widely known that men don't show their feelings, and its for more then one reason.