as life goes on

I am interested in a newspaper article that I had read this morning. The writer wrote about punishing those so-called negligent parents who caused the death of their children. I can agree no more that, as parents, they need to be a lot more cautious especially when dealing with kids younger than three years old. No mistake should be done cause it can harm the lives of the kids. 

However, no matter cautious one can be, there is always a chance that thing may go wrong. It is not that I am wishing something bad. Ideally, nobody want to do a mistake. Realistically, we all do a lot of mistakes at some points in our lives. Punishing those parents who had already lost their child will not do any good. Punishments are made to scared people so that they do not disobey the law. Drug dealers are punished with a life sentence so that no one will become a drug dealer, so that when one is about to sell a drug, they will think of the consequences. 

However, no one in his or her right mind will do something that are harmful to his or her child when he or she is aware of the consequences. Nobody will lock his or her car, walk away and then remember that he or she will be punished if his or hr child die. The loss is already a severe punishment for most of us. Little, if any, people will think about punishments in this situation. Furthermore, it is already heart-wrenching to lose a child. There is no need to put salt onto a bleeding wound