I have a better question: WHY WERE YOU LETTING HIM WATCH IT?! Mother of fuck, what is wrong with you people? “Our child was a complete idiot after we let him watch a hanging, but its totally the news program’s fault for showing it.” You might as well say that it was the hanging’s fault, for having happened. Why is it that parents never want to parent anymore? They want other people to do it. And its encouraged! They keep making things so that its easier for people to let inanimate objects babysit their kids. WHY AREN’T YOU JUST SPENDING TIME WITH YOUR KIDS AND SCREENING HIS SHOWS YOURSELF? If you don’t have the time or inclination to care for your spawn, don’t have them. Or call Angelina Jolie, maybe she’ll take ’em.
And honestly, reading the article, I kept thinking the boy was like, five. Just the way they kept talking about him, I don’t know, something about it made him sound much younger. I had to scroll back up to check his age, and I was just really puzzled when I saw his age. When I was ten, I broke my wrist, and my dad was in the hospital with esophageal cancer. I had already been through my sister running away, my brother getting hit by a car, and a loose dog eating my pet rabbit. Death and physical consequences were not some fuzzy, fairyland concept, and I grew up at a much calmer, younger time. So what the hell was going on with him? Did he have a mental impairment? And if so, that just brings us back to “why were you letting a child watch a hanging,” only times a thousand. Did his parents never explain that the news was real?
Although, granted, I don’t remember my parents ever explaining it to me, either, but we certainly knew. My parents were good at that, though – not really giving a formal lesson or talk, but somehow imparting the knowledge, anyway. Now, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t occasionally ignored (most often by my sister), but we knew.
Of course, we were raised by actual parents, and not television sets. That can really make a world of difference.
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