She's a much more beautiful person than you'll ever know.

Give the article a quick read, its only about 15 lines long.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24063795-12377,00.html


A Friend's parent told me about this incident, and she also said something along the lines of 'if you don't see the humor in this world, you will eventually go crazy.'

Now, I don't find this funny, but she's right. I mean, there are so many horrible things going on in the world that we see, that being only the tip of the ice berg, that if you took everything seriously, you'd become depressed or insane.

I think the real problem is that people do not take this kind of thing seriously enough. there's a difference between laughing at something, and understanding the situation, and then making reference at the humorous side. I believe that when people hear about this kind of thing, they just say 'this is horrible' and walk away.

First of all, it's her birthday, give her a break. she can read tommorow. well she could read tommorow if you hadn't of killed her. I understand thatin some cultures, authority is stricter and..taken more seriously than in canada, but that's redicilous. plus, she had a history of family violence, so she's probably a bit insane.

'good' is how I'd probably react, and it progressively gets worse and worse.

Good: If it was my daughter's birthday, I would not make her read. she can read tommorow, today she gets to enjoy herself, it's called celebration. People in Nazi labour camps used to celebrate birthdays by giving a spoonful of their daily soup to the birthday person. If people in Auschwitz have enough spirit to celebrate a birthday, then a girl in Chile can afford to celebrate.

Bad: My daughter can celebrate her birthday, of course, but I still want her to read, it's part of the cirriculum. she can read a little bit if the book, say, 5-10 minutes (which is a good portion, knowing that this is a book for a 9 year old). that's 10 min max ouf ot 8 hours you're awake, plenty of time left to study.

Ugly: I force my daughter to read her book. it doesn't matter what day it is, you still have to read. she refuses to read, so I refuse to let her celebrate her birthday. no cake, no friends over ( I doubt they have the same birthday treatment in chile, but you get the point).

Ohmygod:I force her to read her book, and she will respect and listen to me as her parent. she refuses to read. I tell her again, but she still refuses. I hit her and punch her. I then kick her , and then throw her against the wall. she feels nauseous, passes out. Realizing that what I did wasn't the smartest idea, i drive her to a hospital, where she dies. because she didn't want to read on her birthday.

I broke this down into good, bad, ugly, ohmygod, trying to show you my view on how unrealistic and pathetic this is. for all you litigous people, i'm not insulting anyone's parenting choice (intentionally), i'm just trying to get my point across.

Now, my main focus here is the use of logic.

I'm sure the parent did not mean to kill her daughter, but that's what happened, and i'm running with facts, not wishes.

The consequence for the action makes no sense whatsoever.

I'm at a loss of words to describe how little logic there is.

I mean, how is violence going to make her understand why she should do her homework on her birthday, let alone actually make her do her homework.

Hitting her, that's abuse, but it happens.

throwing her up against furniture? this is when you must take a step back, look at what your doing. does throwing your daughter around in her house have to do with homework? if it doesn't, then why are you doing it?

after she passes out, the mother probably says "shit, I shouldn't have done that," drives her to the hospital, where she dies. at this point, she realises that she went too far, but had she of taken a step back while she was THROWING HER DAUGHTER AGAINST FURNITURE, she probably would have realized that she was going to far, and thus saved her daughter from herself.

I feel lightly angry at how tragic this is.

I'd really like feedback, thanks.

PS, Sorry if i hurt any feelings/enraged any people, I didn't mean to, and this is just personal opinion.