When societal taboos lead to mob violence: the case of Casey Anthony

For the record: I am totally sick of all this irrational hate for Casey Anthony that everyone keeps spewing all over the place.

I get it. Despite the fact that there was absolutely no evidence that Anthony murdered her daughter you still think she is guilty; so guilty that jurors are going into hiding and innocent women are being violently attacked for the "horrendous" crime of looking a little too much like Casey Anthony.

But where does all this hate come from?

Unless there was some proverbial smoking gun evidence that I didn't see come out in the court case there is nothing at all, whatsoever, that proves Casey Anthony did anything more than cover up the death of her daughter.

Don't get me wrong. I am not condoning the cover-up of a child's death; but even something as horrible as covering up a death by disposing of your daughter's body in a trash bag is not first degree, premeditated murder.

Is that where all the hate comes from? From the fact that a mother could callously dispose of the body of her dead daughter?

I would agree that a mother is expected to protect her child and that it SHOULD be unacceptable behavior for a mother to throw out her child like so much household trash; but should there be at least as much contempt for a father that ACTUALLY murders his family?

That is a bit of a rhetorical question.

Earlier this year a man named Chris Coleman was convicted of the premeditated (and meticulously planned) murder of his wife and two young sons. Yet, despite the fact that there was ample evidence to soundly convict this man of such a horrendous crime the verdict was barely a blip on the national news scene.

Coleman devised an elaborate scheme that involved an imaginary woman that he created to send threats to his own wife for months to set up the night that he strangled his wife and sons in their sleep... all so he could start over with a new woman without having to get a divorce.

So how is it that our society has judged Casey Anthony guilty and yet passed right over the crime of this man?

I honestly do not understand and welcome any theories on the subject.