Originally Posted By: antiqueshell
Mother is ULTIMATELY responsible for the welfare of her child. Common sense says that little children can be UNpredictable at any time so you too much be ready for ANYTHING. She was at a pool, should have known better for letting her attention be on ANYTHING EXCEPT for her child.
The teenage lifeguard will be fired. She failed miserably in her actions and needs to be taught a lesson, her blatant carelessness is outrageous and inexcusable at her age she still knows better.
I am so sick of people being so darn irresponsible, reckless, and inconsiderate of others....
More folks need to start "scolding" these dolts.
Oh how I wish darwin would not be prevented from his job by the modern society. The stupid, brazen, and criminal need to be whittled down.
Normally I don't really agree with your view of the world, but in my opinion you're spot on here. Especially the part about how we've stop Darwinism from being able to do its thing.
The smartphone is simutaneously the best and worst thing to be invented in the last 40 or so years. It has both allowed us as a people to come closer to each other, but it's also allowed us to be able to never have to interact with another person face-to-face ever again if one chooses.
I'm going to make a WAG and say that the mother was too busy with her iPad to really know what her child was doing.