07-01-2003, 06:40 PM
Quote: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.
1. Quit mixing apples and oranges.
Don't deserve? Based on what criterion? You apparently got screwed by man hating America in this case, but no surprise, you aren't the first man to run into that bias and hatred founded on Feminism and Psychobabble for 30 years. Now, you've earned your stripes. Glad to see you made it through that emotional meat grinder.
2. Worse than killing?
Oh please, knock it off. Besides offering the Nietzchism that "That which does not kill you makes you stronger" I will point out that the Program from WASP Hell does end eventually. While I don't buy that what is being done is right, you are full of sh** on that point. They are still alive when it is over.
3. Stripping their identities?
Oh, stop it. What they are doing is forcing them to do something they don't want to do. I don't endorse this approach. I personally consider it a form of emotional abuse. That said, everything you go through in life changes you somewhat. Again, the teen's isolation from their environment and enforced adaptation to "Something else" is not what I would call loving treatment. They are apparently 'changed' when they come out, but I wonder if a great deal of the change isn't merely external, and much of the old person is hidden for a while in order to cope.
4. The most horrible criminals? They need to be executed, or changed even more fundamentally than any of these teens ever are, because they actually went out and committed a horrible crime and are thus more than potential problems, they are proven problems for everyone, not just their families.
Let's not compare teenagers having emotional trouble with bona fide criminals, shall we? It is unfair to the teen in the extreme.
What these teens appear to have committed as a crime is: trying to grow up and go through puberty imperfectly, or be emotionally and socially incompetent to the point where their guardian can't, or most likely won't, be able to deal with them.
What is sad is that these "schools" exist. One more case of profit motive run amok.
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete