SigSys paper and Stupid People
*Exhales*
I'm done with SigSys. I'm done with everything but Meta actually. I ended up really liking my SigSys end-game. I wrote a sweet paper. It's 6 pages long, but highly skimmable. Read the intro to the analogy if you're going to read any of it. It's about a model of the classroom that implements communications ideas. The goal is to be able to better understand pedagogy by linking it to something that is already pretty well-understood.
Man. I really like that paper.
Moving on to things I don't like: stupid people. What the hell. I just don't understand what these people were thinking. This article is about a Vegan couple that's being tried for involuntary manslaughter for the death of their baby who was kept on a diet of soy milk and organic apple juice. Things like this make me so angry. How can they call this involuntary? Ignorance isn't supposed to be protective. As parents they had a duty to know what their child needed. They consciously and purposefully failed to do what they should've done. Arguably they didn't know better, but it was their responsibility to know better. People are frustrating.
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They were both convicted of murder. The BBC article is particularly poorly written.
Says the AP:
The couple were found guilty May 2 of malice murder, felony murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to children. A jury deliberated about seven hours before returning the guilty verdicts.
They were both sentenced to life in prison, looks like. I'm not sure I'm convinced that life in prison is proportionate to the offense, but whatever.
Ignorance of the law is not a defense, but ignorance itself will often time lessen your criminal liability. That is, you don't have to know that stealing is against the law, but you do have to know that you're stealing someone else's stuff (rather than think it is yours).
As for penalty, well, unfortunately if you're found guilty of murder in Georgia it's either life imprisonment or death. And, murder only requires malice..."Malice shall be implied where no considerable provocation appears and where all the circumstances of the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart."
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