Comments on: Don’t Torture Children

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:13:54 +0000

“Local family catches caretakers’ abuse on camera” seen on channel 8 san diego news Sept 19th 2012. Just horrific! Why is there such a rise in abuse of autistic people? What does this say about the soul beat of our society? http://www.cbs8.com/story/19589835/local-family-catches-caretakers-abuse-on-camera

By: Bevitron

Bevitron — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:09:43 +0000

Good Lord. There is no way on earth I could watch that film. How unbelievably disturbing, and how disturbed the perpetrators of the “treatments.” It makes me think of the horrors of Walter Freeman and his traveling lobotomy show in the mid-20th century.

By: ali

ali — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:03:43 +0000

perspective*

By: ali

ali — Tue, 22 May 2012 17:47:52 +0000

ha! I watched that too. internet not working. broke up with my boyfriend (and best friend) that morning and needed distraction. Would have preferred a chick flic…but instead this program came on. I’ve been haunted by it all weekend. Torture is a very slippery ethical slope… and in order not to be corrupted, we have to be black and white about it.
Another point against it: This is CONDITIONING. I HATE BF SKINNER and any one who abides by behaviorism. i find it disgusting. It warps NURTURE/nurturing into a grotesque practice.

anyway… it put things into prospective. My life is great. No crying into my beer over a breakup while shit like this is going on in the world.

By: kate

kate — Tue, 22 May 2012 04:58:41 +0000

when people abuse children in the name of science or religion, it makes me mad that that’s all people need to hear as an excuse. call it what it is- sadism. control issues.

By: Erika

Erika — Mon, 21 May 2012 23:53:22 +0000

I signed the petition. It’s amazing the cruelty that is allowed against anyone that is a ward of the state but this s on a whole other level. The doctor is obviously demented and experimenting with his torture devices. I don’t understand how this is allowed.

By: Andra

Andra — Mon, 21 May 2012 21:18:53 +0000

People should be licensed to breed.

By: David Duff

David Duff — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:06:11 +0000

Let’s not be too hasty, here! In various restaurants, aircraft, theatres, supermarkets and other public spaces I have often wondered, sometimes aloud, as to whether infanticide is really and truly all that bad?

By: patni

patni — Sun, 20 May 2012 20:35:24 +0000

I watched that show too. Un-fucking believable.

By: Cricket9

Cricket9 — Sat, 19 May 2012 14:38:52 +0000

And how autistic children “avail themselves” of aversive therapy? Do they ask “please give me electroshocks 31 times so I can get better”? Holy crap, this is truly disgusting.