A man and a woman have been arrested for letting their infant daughter starve to death while they raised a virtual child in the online game PRIUS. The Korean couple, known only as the Kims, returned home after a 12-hour gaming session at a "PC Bang" Internet parlor to find their baby dead. Tests confirmed the child had died of malnutrition.
The father, 41 and mother, 25, met online and in 2008 and had a baby together. However, they regularly mistreated the three-month-old, admitting to police that they fed her rotten, powdered milk and spanked her when she was crying. Remember, the kid was three months old. All the while, they were working on being good parents to a digital daughter in PRIUS. Simply amazing.
Really don't know what else to say to that. Perhaps one of the more grotesque stories I've heard concerning parent neglect. It's terrifying to think that simply anybody is allowed to have a child, no matter how f*cked up they are.
Game Addicts Arrested For Staring Baby To Death [ABC]
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1:00 PM on 03.04.2010
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I could make a tasteless joke, but I'll let someone else do it.
All the pieces are there.
One fucked up world we live in :|.
Just...wow.
'The Kims'
"In the West, players remove swimming pool ladders and watch their Sims drown. Now - in the East - all new action gameplay! Lock your Kims in a room and watch them die!"
If you don't pass then you're stuck with a pet rock. Some people are just crap parents. Recognize and deal with it.
(Terrible joke, I know)
You are absolutely correct. A lot of things sound better "in theory" than in practice, such as regulating reproduction. History shows that genius often springs up in the face of adversity, as is the case with many musicians and talented artists, as well as scientists, politicians, etc. Some people grow up in absolute shit conditions and, because of their experiences, become individuals who better society through their devotion to prevent others from going through similar misfortune. However...
It is a leap of faith to use the logic that "unqualified" or morally destitute individuals should be allowed to have children on the basis that genius can sprout from such conditions. It is similar to using Tim Tebow's Super Bowl ad logic. Just because miracles do occur does not mean we should put our money behind them.
"It sounds like a good idea to test people before letting them have children,but I think that maybe there might be an unseen consequence further down the line that isn't obvious to us yet."
Well there is the whole, "sometimes women get pregnant unintentionally" thing... and if these people are tested as being too stupid then that would lead to children being sent to orphanages or being aborted... though then again, if the parents really are too stupid an orphanage might be a step up so it works out
...too soon?
And some people think video games teach people violence. Apparently they don't teach you anything. Oh, the horrid irony.
http://www.irreligion.org/2010/02/26/baby-starved-to-death-because-he-did-not-say-amen/
On the other hand, more stringent policy for keeping your baby, once it's made, is a lot more likely. We already have child services to take kids out of terrible situations, but only those situations that are quite very terrible. Some parents do a good job of covering their tracks so the system isn't very effective, but it's probably as good as it'll get for now. OK BYE
This is why I lose faith in humanity
On the subject:WHAT THE FUCK WHERE THEY THINKING!!!!!