Hoping this would happen...

[ZoomZoom Diva]

Nate, considering everything, I advise you and your wife to get living wills that spell out your wishes, a HIPAA release so medical providers can actually release the information to you about her and vice versa, and a health care power of attourney so you can act in each other's stead.

On topic, I will agree it's a difficult line. Inflicting deliberate harm by beating a child (versus corporal punishment) is very different to me than ignoring a real problem, which is very different to me from acting in a non-mainstream way.

Do I believe the parents made the right decision? Hell no! I think they're majorly screwed up in the head! However, I don't believe I have the right to force them to live according to my beliefs either.

 

[Jesse MS3GT]

^ Your lack of hypocrisy is quite admirable.

 

[cosmicspd3]

this same thing happened a while ago with 2 little kids that had ear infections... Not to be mean or anything but doing that to your kids is frickin mean and I agree they got what they deserve...except they'll prolly go make more babies anyway and do the same thing over again

 

[AJ]

I on the side that gets the kids the medical help they need. Those who think a prayer will help and thus will not take action are part of the problem. But, does a case like this get any attention when it happens over and over again in other countries. Then, what's the deal with letting children die simply because the familys can't afford help. And I'm not talking US here. Probably a side of the debate not relevant here.

Save some tax dollars. Just by the bullets and pull the trigger.

 

[spek1098]

These parents bastardize what it means to be religious. I believe people who allow their religious belief to completely disconnect them from reality and from all forms of common sense, which allows an act like this to occur, if they are not criminally negligent, then they are mental ill to the point of commitment. What I’m hearing here is the same arguments that are used by all the cults and all these polygamist sects (which are almost always born out of the desire of old men to sleep with young teenager girls); the argument that government should stay out of peoples faiths. It's a slippery slope the other way as well, to allow people to use faith as a cover for horrible acts.

 

[Young Roids]

These parents bastardize what it means to be religious. I believe people who allow their religious belief to completely disconnect them from reality and from all forms of common sense, which allows an act like this to occur, if they are not criminally negligent, then they are mental ill to the point of commitment. What I’m hearing here is the same arguments that are used by all the cults and all these polygamist sects (which are almost always born out of the desire of old men to sleep with young teenager girls); the argument that government should stay out of peoples faiths. It's a slippery slope the other way as well, to allow people to use faith as a cover for horrible acts.

You hit the nail on the head. I couldn't agree more.

 

[dmention7]

+1 Well said.