re: ATL - Toddler Left in Car

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Agreed, but we also don't want anything approaching societal "excuse" for this behavior.

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It's amazing, really. Here we sit in a highly developed nation, which is also the largest consumer of recreational narcotics and the most prolific jailer in the history of mankind.

In this nation we empathize with people whose poor decisions lead to infant mortality but drug addicts are locked up for years and rendered unemployable.

Accountability must be evolving as a term.