Court overturns FDA ban on school’s electric shock devices

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[–]StillLessons 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

A pure dilemma.

I know of a family of very gentle people with one family member who is emotionally unregulated. No matter what treatments they have tried, he keeps engaging in the same destructive behaviors. While we all recoil at the term "electric shock", the question will always return to the same starting point: if not this, then what? That is the fundamental problem. It may be that as harsh as it seems, all the other strategies yield even worse, more destructive (including to the person themselves as well as any in contact with them) results.

If not this, what do you do? If we don't have an answer to that question, we need to suspend judgment about practices such as this.

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My brother was a problem child, violent and uncontrollable. I get people look at these sort of programs and imagine themselves or their normal children being subjected to it. That likely does happen to some extent. And that makes people recoil in horror at it.

I agree, these programs shouldn't be judged by people who don't understand this is meant to fix abnormal, otherwise untreatable behavior, or haven't experienced it.

That said though, this program doesn't seem particularly effective. I'd like to see euthanasia on the table.