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SASSAS said:As for the baby eating raccoon droppings, if he's young enough to not know better, the parents need to stop paying attention to Oprah and Regis and watch their kid, or the if the kid is old enough to know better, it's just natural selection (or even part of an intelligent design) weeding the kid out of the gene pool.
Hmm. Your analysis is a quite a few shades too black and white for me.
The parents put the baby on a blanket on the grass in their back yard. The baby was 18 months or so. The kid was grabbing around as babies do, and grabbed something and put it into its mouth, as babies do. Babies are not quite intellectually capable of discerning whether what they are putting in their mouth is dangerous or not. Witness the toddler in Australia who put a crawling funnel web spider into its mouth.
Accidents that happen to babies, or even little kids for that matter, do not necessarily make the parents unfit or the child deserving of its fate. Children often do thoughtless things, but in any case this was a toddler. Once you have children you will quickly realize that it is impossible to watch a toddler every second, although you exhaust yourself trying.
So, I don't think that either Oprah or natural selection or even intelligent design had anything to do with it. Just too many raccoons.