Is throwing a small child off a building ever morally justified?

[BlodwynPig]

Much better preparation for life than your millennial mollycoddling.

Deffo spree killer when he grows up

[Phoenix Lazarus]

'That's my son,' shouted the mother, allegedly.  'Yeah, that's okay.  They're not relatives,' she would have added, with a grateful smile. if the boy had gone to someone else.

[Pearly-Dewdrops Drops]

What if the two youths were trapped on the viewing platform with a paedophile disguised as a Modigliani? The 20% chance of surviving the fall was the obvious choice.

[Cerys]

What if the viewing platform was part of an M C Esher installation, and the teenager thought the kid would actually land on a higher level, giggling happily?

[phes]

I've seen before and after pics and it doesn't look like the same kid at all

*Stroking chin emoji*

[QDRPHNC]

Lol

[kittens]

very willing to write an exposé about this website for any major media outlet, so long as it is guaranteed to kickstart my career. pm for details.

[garbed_attic]

One of the first comments I saw on Twitter about it:

People are so crazy, and more cruel these days..


I believe we just need to punish people harder..#instantInjection

[kittens]

for the crime of throwing a child to it's Doom from the viewing platform of the Tate Modern art gallery, you are sentenced to write a weekly blog about your feelings for 6 months culminating in a vlog in which you must admit to at least some small degree of guilt.

beggars belief honestly it does. in my day if a 16 year old threw a 6 year old from a ten storey building he would be sentenced to be thrown from a 100 storey building by a 160 year old man. but now they are issued xboxes and pills until they promise to watch less sky sports and spend an hour a day thinking about trans people.

[Replies From View]

Is this the new knife crime?

Actually no, surprisingly.  It is an old one.

[Urinal Cake]

Only to prevent a dog being thrown off the building.

[Flouncer]

I believe the correct verb is yeeted - "The small child was yeeted off the viewing platform."

[Replies From View]

I wonder whether anyone has ever thrown a small child off a building in order to 'bounce back' another small child being thrown from an opposite building.

[Captain Z]

We're always saying that if time travel ever becomes possible we'd know about it by now, perhaps this is the evidence we're looking for.

[lankyguy95]

Gravity doesn't kill people. Except sometimes.

[Replies From View]

Gravity doesn't kill people. Except sometimes.

Actually no it never does

[idunnosomename]

I suspect a rare species of crab is behind this too

[Pearly-Dewdrops Drops]

Here's a Brass Eye quote from Labour MP Neil Coyle: "Nearly 6 million visitors last year to Tate Modern and nothing like this has happened before."

[lankyguy95]

Actually no it never does

Gravity doesn't make a major contributing factor to killing people. Except sometimes.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Actually, wouldn't it make sense for all buildings with balconies overlooking sharp drops to have nets like those ones in prison for foiling suicide?

[Cold Meat Platter]

The child was French. Case closed.

[Replies From View]

You said it sometimes does but actually it never does, I'm afraid.


It's just one of those things in life that never does.

[Uncle TechTip]

This is like a Peter's Mad Thought played out for real. Don't tell me you didn't want to know what would happen! Well the answer is, it becomes national news etc.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

The child was French. Case closed.

Thanks for stopping by, that's all this time on TALKING POINT, hope you folks take care out there, have a great evening.

[idunnosomename]

Surprised it's taken this long for a precocious French child to be hurled from a great height in a major London tourist attraction

[shiftwork2]

Child is stable, thank Heavens.  No update on how annoying it was though?

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Child is stable, thank Heavens.  No update on how annoying it was though?

The main thing is it has learned not to do whatever it was presumably doing again. A win-win story, heartwarming and just.

[Puce Moment]

Something about those crying child paintings of the 70s but I can't find a way to make it work that doesn't make me feel awful.

[imitationleather]

But is it art?

[pigamus]

Were they recreating the famous scene from Titanic and it just went wrong?