Brock Gets Grumpy: Issue #983

It's been a while since I really got worked up into a good froth about stuff around here, so behold!

First off, there's this case, which elicited both a laugh and a sigh from me when I read it.

Crown prosecutors will be at the Ontario Court of Appeal Thursday trying to designate sexsomnia as a mental illness after a man was cleared of sexual assault due to the rare sleep aberration.

I just don't know what to say... if you read the article, everything about it just boggles the mind. Plus I really hate it when people get off with nary a slap on the wrist, mental illness or not. Put some kind of conditions on them.

Moving on.

There was a case before one of the Children's Aid Societies around here that made me want to slap everyone too.

There's this kid who was born in Canada to druggie parents... I think they're dead or something. Anyway, he's been in a foster home since he was 10 days old. They want to adopt him. CAS wants to send him to the slums of Brazil (not sure what city, but probably Sao Paulo) to live with his Grandmother who has not initiated contact with him at all BUT she's his last blood relative.

And the host of the radio show (the wishy-washy Leslie Roberts, also of Global News) was arguing with people who thought that was a monumentally stupid idea because if we didn't let him go to the slums instead of staying in Toronto with a relatively well-to-do family, that would be practicing economic discrimination AND WHERE WOULD IT END?!

It's like people have stopped having the capacity to think in specifics these days and everything is about generalizations.

Forget about how it will affect this particular kid. Worry about the hypothetical kids that might or might not be affected in the future.

He even had the gall to say, "well, if it's bad for him to be with his poor grandmother, why not start pulling kids out of poor homes here in Canada?"

Thereby missing the point completely...

Sigh.