The Singaporean pussy pass in full effect:

So it happens that a little over a week ago, a 31-year old single mother pushed her 9-year old mentally disabled son out of an apartment window to his death.

Unsurprisingly, the internet white knights have come crawling out all over the place. They blame everything - from the evil government that didn't give her enough free handouts, to assurances that she must be mentally disturbed and hence cannot be held culpable for her actions, the town councils that overlooked her -

Everything and everyone is to be blamed for the death of this boy - except the mother who pushed him out of the window. Because she's just a victim of this horrible, oppressive society, a leaf blown in the winds of fate.

You can't have it both ways, folks. If you want to claim no personal agency or responsibility, then you will have none of the attendant rights. If you can't claim responsibility when you push someone out of a window, why should we give you the privilege of voting?

I think I do understand part of the reason why the local girls hate our menfolk so much. They're all a bunch of dumb pussified white-knighting gammas.

Someone needs to do something about these horrors! Just not me. NGOs gotta take care of it. Pimp Daddy G's gotta take care of it. Town councils gotta take care of it. Just not me. Just not the neighbours. Just not the extended family. Just not other people. No, it's all someone else's problem.

You dumbshits, you atomised Singaporean society and now you complain that no one's got your back? If you're going to ditch others to get ahead, then why are you surprised when others ditch you? You tore apart the existing societal safety net and left yourself with no other option than Daddy G's sugar, and now you complain that he won't let you have any?

You all deserve what's coming to you.

Update: the exoneration of any and all culpability continues:

How could three persons, an old lady, a young mother and a special needs child lived on a $1,000 income. Maybe there were some handouts from the govt or some charitable organizations. This is a tragic story of the lives of three miserable beans trying to get by in one of the most expensive country in the world.

So, where are all the other people? Oh wait, to other people this woman and her family were fucking invisible. A nonentity. Only there for some people to get all righteously angry over...and as pawns in directing anger at the government.

The poor woman, now in prison for delivering her son, would probably think it is better to end it all. The poor child will be her life of living hell. She would have nothing else to live for short of a miracle, a little mercy from some kind souls.

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"The poor woman in prison is likely to remain in prison for the rest of her life. She just switched from a prison without bars to behind bars. The latter may be less demanding financially and emotionally less draining. At least she will have a life of her own to live for, behind bars. At least she set free the poor boy trapped in a flawed body. Some may disagree and think it is better for the boy to continue to live. What about her mother, now with all $1,000 to herself for as long as she can work?"

You know, just reading these lines makes me sick. Killing your own nine-year-old son is "delivering" and "setting him free". I wonder if the kid felt free when he was plummeting to the concrete pavement below or terrified enough to piss his pants, but such is the logic behind dismembering babies to "save" them. Well, fuck.

No one has the right to declare another's life not worth living. Only the possessor of said life can even begin to argue to have the right to relinquish it.

Going through Dalryample's work again, the constant motif of the underclass, and the idiot fools who coddle and enable said underclass, is that of non-culpability. They know all the right things to say to the judges, all the right acts to put on in front of the social workers. The idea that they might even be marginally culpable for their own deeds is foreign to them - they describe themselves in the passive ("The knife went in"), helpless objects, victims of circumstance, suffers of a disease which Dr. Dalryample must now cure, or else in their eyes, HE becomes the one to blame for the mess they've made of their lives.

Oh, I am in full support of everyone's right to fuck up their own life - so long as others aren't asked to foot the bill.

Just look at the comments:

"She needs treatment not punishment"

"the woman has my sympathy."

"Feel sorry for what our country has done to drive her to this tragedy. She should be given treatment for her mental and emotional health not more punishment."

"She must hv felt stuck in a depressive situation for 78840 hrs. Seeing no end of her plight and decides to commit a crime like this."

"with fianancial difficulities, even if u go to any help centre they don't help if you have bills not paid an have an income of S$500.00 - S$1000.00 they don't help"

The gentleman does NOT deviate from benevolence, even in the midst of destitution. The people of the Great Depression by and large did not deviate from respectability, even though they were living in the most miserable times of the cnetury. There's not even the slightest shred of evidence that this woman was suffering from mental illness, and yet people automatically assume that - all while screaming at others not to judge because "they don't have all the facts".

What's worse than the fools clamouring for the pussy pass are those who immediately try and use this murderess' case to attack the established order - they don't even bother to feign sympathy for her before jumping straight into the calls for wealth redistribution.

So what now? When world finance and trade collapse and Singapore is left with shit, you're going to use that as an excuse to start a free-for-all killing and looting spree?

Look in the mirror. You are the ones responsible for this country's downfall. You allowed it to happen.

I will stand by and wait in my box, and there's only room for me and mine.

*Sigh*

I'm not completely heartless. I can understand extenuating circumstances - please be reminded that this is NOT one from the evidence presented, and that even if this murderess was truly mentally unstable, that does not excuse murder unless one tries an insanity plea - like stealing a loaf of bread when one is starving. That doesn't change that it's still stealing and we are still bound to be benevolent even in destitution.

Now, if I were the bakery owner, I would assess the situation judging on whether the thief were truly repentant and in need. If so, I might ask for a reduced charge. I might forgive him for the theft. If they were willing to learn and able-bodied, I might even take the fellow on for food at first, and then perhaps a small day's wages later.

And it will not wash away his deeds any more than a carousel rider can stride into church at 30 and declare herself a "born-again virgin".

But the idiots piling on to white knight don't even know if this murderess is repentant. Do we? There certainly haven't been any reports to the contrary. And for those idiots who claim a mother would never harm her children, please let me remind you of the average 15% infanticide rate in the ancient world, shooting up to as high as 50% in renaissance Italy and 17th-century China, and the 1.3 billion abortions worldwide since 1980.

Eat whatever you want, protest whatever you want, sue whomever you want, and fuck whomever you want – with no regard for yourself, for your children, for your country, or for what the future consequences are.

Don’t judge, just live!

And always be true to yourself.

- Aurini.