I'm not advocating murder, or accusing Mrs Dr Kate McCann of it, or even
suggesting that being killed by this
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is preferable to being killed by this
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but asking, if she did, as the evidence suggests, play a role in the
murder of her child, that we ask if the sum total of life extended by the
Drs McCann, exceeds the sum total of human life extinguished by them, and
how to deal with two people immensely useful to society, who have chosen
to waste months of that value on a media campaign (regardless of who
killed their daughter)?
If Mrs Dr Kate McCann is guilty, something has clearly gone wrong, for an
attractive women with the "gift of medicine" (well paid job for life).
Something similar went wrong for others guilty of the same, not as good
looking, and not as well qualified. A problem of the same order, but we
don't notice, because they're ugly.
Britain is a notoriously child-hating society - it's legal to slap your
children but not to breast-feed in public. The same Members of the UK
Parliament now wearing yellow ribbons are the first to demonise troubled
children.
Or is this my Stockholm Syndrome transplanted onto killers?
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