Archives par mot-clé : child homicide

Wayward and rebellious

– 610 : Devarim (Deuteronomy) 21

  1. If a man has a wayward and rebellious son, who does not obey his father or his mother, and they chasten him, and [he still] does not listen to them,             
  2. his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place.             
  3.  And they shall say to the elders of his city, « This son of ours is wayward and rebellious; he does not obey us; [he is] a glutton and a guzzler. »
  4.  And all the men of his city shall pelt him to death with stones, and he shall die. So shall you clear out the evil from among you, and all Israel will listen and fear.

Well, we’ve come a long way, haven’t we?

Have we?

+2024 : Study finds family members are most common perpetrators of infant and child homicides in the U.S.

Or isn’t it high time we acknowledge “the urgent need” – as we put it at the beginning of the book – to “overhaul our cognitive circuits, so sorely tested by an endless submission to iterative algorithmic structures at least as deadly as the mega-comet that led to the dinosaurs’ extinction” ?

Many other every day life issues to be sorted out in Homo juchremanensis (e-pub/kindle).