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Originally Posted by CFrance
Did she say, "Yeah, I took all the pills that were in that empty bottle." Maybe they were somebody else's.
I'm not trying to defend her, per se, or deny that she has a problem, but I hate all the supposition that her parents are to blame for enabling her, or that she took the pills in the bottle, or that she has no other mental/physical disabilities that do not allow her to act as a reasonable human being. There is one story in an online newspaper that is notorious for not digging deep for the facts.
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None of us know. I am a card carrying mother. I have made leaps to conclusions that may or may not have been fair. Everyone is capable of a lot of things. EVERY ONE of us. As a society we have laws to protect people from harm. Sometimes we have to generalize and make decisions that make us choose to live in a safe area and decide who our friends are. Those choices don't mean we live in a world of hate or disdain or entitlement or bigotry or racism. When we make choices, when we decide these things, we are assessing a situation and getting to a bottom line. We are being practical and realistic. Being realistic has nothing to do with hatred. Nothing to do with bigotry, it is what allows us to survive and has done for thousands of years. When we survive we CAN help others. It is not either or.