Man Admits Urinating On Ill Woman
“A Hartlepool man is facing jail after he urinated on a disabled woman who lay dying in the street. The 27-year-old shouted ‘this is YouTube material’ as he degraded Christine Lakinski, 50, who had fallen ill, magistrates heard. Miss Lakinski, who suffered a number of medical conditions, died from natural causes, an inquest found…. Miss Lakinski was making her way home with a box of laminate flooring when she fell ill and stumbled into a doorway. Anderson had smoked a cannabis joint and been drinking when he and two friends spotted her. He tried to rouse her by throwing a bucket of water over her, before urinating on her and covering her with shaving foam. The incident was filmed on a mobile phone. She was later declared dead at the scene, the cause of death being given as pancreatic failure. Lynne Dalton, prosecuting, said: ‘Although his actions did not contribute to her death it was appalling behaviour that robbed her of any dignity in the last hours of her life.’” — BBC (UK)
(Thanks for the link to Belial, who thought “this sounded quite perverted.”)
Clearly this was not perverse in any sexual sense. The man’s motivation for pissing on a dying woman did not involve urolagnia, coprophilia, or necrophilia. Everything you need to know about his motivation was expressed in the exclamation “This is YouTube material!” It was not a sexual act but a lark, a stupid stunt, an outrage performed for the mobile phone that filmed it — and for the potential audience that gobbles up such stuff on the internet.
Even if the act wasn’t sexually perverse, was there still something perverse about it? To answer the question takes you to the very heart of a difficult matter. What is perversity? If you go to Google News and search for “perversity,” you’ll be surprised by the diversity of results. Right this second the top result is a story called “Perversity as Secularism.” It’s about Indian politics, not sexual deviance. Another top result from a British paper speaks about the “perversity of some of the earnings rules in our benefits system.” What is the common thread that unites political perversity, economic perversity, sexual perversity, and whatever sort of perversity it is that causes a young man to pee on a sick person?
The typical definition of perversity emphasizes its irrationality — its obstinacy in the face of reason, taste, decorum, morality. Certainly the bad Samaritan who assaults a dying person is being, by most standards, unreasonable and immoral. But is this act truly perverse? Or is it just a moment of stoned and drunken idiocy? Shouldn’t it be possible to define perversity in a way that clearly distinguishes it from mere idiocy?
But was this really just “mere idiocy”? To me, urinating on a person who is clearly in distress isn’t just stupid, but is evidence of a profound disregard for the dignity of other human beings and disinclination to help a fellow person who clearly needs help — in other words, of going against everything that decent society would expect (disregarding whether this expectation is really met all that often). Isn’t that _exactly_ “obstinacy in the face of reason, taste, decorum, morality”?
I have it on good authority that this sort of casual jaded abuse is becoming common in Britain.
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