It goes without saying that nobody should throw a living being in a dumpster. I’m not arguing against that, and I explicitly mentioned that I’m not addressing the morality side of your argument.

Rather, I am addressing your idealistic and unrealistic beliefs that a parent can always just relinquish a baby in a humane way, as though that’s an option that’s both consistently possible irrespective of the circumstances and as simple to do as merely leaving the baby on the curb of a building owned by government services.

No shit, leaving an infant in a dumpster is the worst possible thing a parent can choose to do. But, unless you’ve had the experience of actually trying to permanently relinquish an unwanted child to the state or an organization and are familiar with the challenges and roadblocks put in place to make that as difficult as possible, you’re doing little other than virtue signaling when asserting that they “could have just done this instead.”

Instead of unconditionally condemning individuals for immoral acts that likely were made out of desperation, we should be looking at why someone would think throwing a baby in fucking dumpster is the solution to their problem. Nobody other than a psychopath would consider that to be the default solution, and unless you can prove that 100% of people who do it are diagnosed psychopaths, you should be taking a closer look into where society failed at providing appropriate resources and education to parents who want to humanely relinquish their children to the state.

I’m not saying anyone who does it is a misunderstood saint with a gun pointed at their head, but fuck—don’t just blame individuals while ignoring the systemic problems.