Casey Anthony

I couple of people on my friends list have posted links or status updates on Facebook saying that Casey Anthony should be going to jail. I know Casey Anthony seems incredibly guilty but, given that logically in light of the evidence we don't know for sure she is, and given that human beings often feel certain of things they don't know for sure and succumb to doing things that seem so "logical" at the time, like the mob mentality, but later are shown to be wrong, I think perhaps we should rethink our certainty about her guilt. If there's a lack of evidence then not only should she not be found guilty in the official court but she also shouldn't be found guilty in the court of our minds.

I happened to find this article about how she is but shouldn't be the "most hated person in America" which she apparently is (either that or she's quite high up there on the unofficial unscientifically verified list), because many people have done things that are much worse. I agree.

Vilifying Casey Anthony I suppose, is also an excuse for the system and culture of the lack of support given to parents, not to change. If Casey was a crazy stressed out mother then making her into a bad apple implies that it's not the system and society that doesn't support mothers that's (mostly) wrong but that it's her and the other moms who can't take it. It's not that I am sympathetic with child abuse in any way.  I've been the person so many times telling people, "Don't hit your kid, you're just going to make him/her more angry. Your kid may be frustrating but they're just really sensitive and they need you." Sometimes I think it's amazing the brute mentality that passes for "civilization" in this day and age, given how cruel apparently civilized people can be to children and think nothing of it.

I feel strongly about this Casey Anthony is the worst person issue, partly because it really unnerves me to see anyone hated or called bad.