07-01-2003, 06:17 PM
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Thanks. I felt so betrayed afterward, I pretty much refused to speak to Dad for nearly a month. I carried a grudge for a bit longer. After learning of this, I'm just glad that was all I was subjected to. I have no doubt I could weather something like Tranquility Bay now (chemical drugging excepted), but when I was 15? I don't know...
It's been my experience that you're pretty much a borderline troll. Still, I'll reply to this, and I'm not meaning this in any way as a flame.
Yes, there are bad kids out there. Ones that don't respond to traditional methods, who need "tough love". Regardless, they still don't deserve to be carted off somewhere to be brainwashed. Noone does. What these people are doing is worse than killing the children; they're stripping them of their identities. Noone deserves that, not even the most horrible criminals.
Unless I'm reading this wrong, you meant me. There seems to be alot of WL/WB confusion going around lately. ;)
As soon as I finish this post, I'm emailing my father a link to that article and thanking him for only sending me to Vanderbilt.
Thanks for the legal info, as depressing as it is.
As for my choice of words, it was rhetoric. When I started this thread I had just finished reading a 120+ post thread on Something Awful relating to this. It made me so sick I felt I had to do something, and raging impotently at the keyboard was pretty much the extent of my options. That probably doesn't absolve me of suspicion if someone does take some sort of action, but meh.
Some days I think it would be better if someone hit the Big Red Button, so the cockroaches could inherit the earth.
- WL
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Warlocke, what happened to you was deeply unfair, I'm so sorry you went through all that
Thanks. I felt so betrayed afterward, I pretty much refused to speak to Dad for nearly a month. I carried a grudge for a bit longer. After learning of this, I'm just glad that was all I was subjected to. I have no doubt I could weather something like Tranquility Bay now (chemical drugging excepted), but when I was 15? I don't know...
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There are some really bad kids out there who need set straight.
It's been my experience that you're pretty much a borderline troll. Still, I'll reply to this, and I'm not meaning this in any way as a flame.
Yes, there are bad kids out there. Ones that don't respond to traditional methods, who need "tough love". Regardless, they still don't deserve to be carted off somewhere to be brainwashed. Noone does. What these people are doing is worse than killing the children; they're stripping them of their identities. Noone deserves that, not even the most horrible criminals.
Quote:Ghostiger
Its not simple. There are many circumstances and many different responses. Your perspective is very skewed in this case. You were mistreated after having done nothing wrong. That biases you.
Unless I'm reading this wrong, you meant me. There seems to be alot of WL/WB confusion going around lately. ;)
Quote:DeeBye
I want to hug my son right now after reading that article.
As soon as I finish this post, I'm emailing my father a link to that article and thanking him for only sending me to Vanderbilt.
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(Snip legal stuff)
Thanks for the legal info, as depressing as it is.
As for my choice of words, it was rhetoric. When I started this thread I had just finished reading a 120+ post thread on Something Awful relating to this. It made me so sick I felt I had to do something, and raging impotently at the keyboard was pretty much the extent of my options. That probably doesn't absolve me of suspicion if someone does take some sort of action, but meh.
Some days I think it would be better if someone hit the Big Red Button, so the cockroaches could inherit the earth.
- WL