Kristian White was sentenced to 450 hours of community service and placed under the supervision of a corrections officer for two years for manslaughter.
“Mr. White made by what any measure was a terrible mistake,” Justice Ian Harrison said in the New South Wales state Supreme Court.
Prosecutors had called for a prison term in the killing of Clare Nowland, a great-grandmother who suffered dementia, but the judge said such a punishment was disproportionate.
“It is … at the lower end of seriousness of crimes amounting to wrongful death,” Harrison said.
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Nah, that’s some eugenics bullshit. People don’t lose value just because their health is failing. They’re still people.
What her health does change is the threat that she posed.
Explain why you as a trained officer need a taser to subdue a 95 year old frail woman who needs a walker.
Just literally take a step back, or grab her wrist. It’s not hard.
It’s not eugenics, it’s agism.
Eugenics would be about people with bad genes, like downs syndrome or autism.
I think it can fall under the same umbrella if their health is failing - it certainly follows the same logic of getting rid of the useless eaters.
But strictly speaking it doesn’t affect the gene pool, so you’re right about that.