When my son was 7 or 8 years old, the school tried to put him on meds. They had even convinced his ma that he should be on meds.
Then I found out what they were up to. Had to set my foot down there.
It was an uphill battle on his behalf, but I finally prevailed, and they didn't put him on meds. At one point I had to actually say "well, I reckon we can see what the courts think of you folks putting him on babysitter-in-a-bottle instead of just doing your goddamned jobs. OR, I can pull him out of school altogether and just school him myself, and solve your problems for you so that you don't have to do your job at all. Maybe both... but you ain't putting him on any unnecessary chemicals just because YOU are lazy."
I'm not sure exactly what worked, but they eventually backed off when they saw I wasn't about to back down.
As you correctly observe, why in the hell would anyone voluntarily subject themselves to a chemical regimen that has a high probability of just making things worse? Why in the hell would they allow their CHILDREN to be subjected to that? Aren't we supposed to protect and nurture them rather than try to kill them off?
To be honest, this sort of thing is why I don't bitch too much about abortions. Some folks just ain't got no damned business reproducing, and it seems to be those very folks who have the highest incidence of inability to keep their goddamned knees together. I see no reason to allow them to bring kids into the world just to have someone to experiment on and chemically lobotomize.
I think their potential parents are already far enough down THAT road!
Don't get me wrong - I do believe that abortion is, generally speaking, murder as classically defined - the intentional killing of another human being without justification - but it could also be seen as a mercy-killing, considering the lives those kids would have to put up with if they were born.
"Reproductive rights" my dyin' ass! Their "reproductive rights" are being exercised when they fling those knees apart! If they get to an abortion clinic, that "reproductive rights" horse is already out of the gate, and they're just having to put it down because they lacked self control to begin with.
The root cause there is a lack of self control - we're not installing it in our kids, and then they are growing up not even having it in their tool kit to be able to install it in THEIR kids, and each generation is just sliding farther into that abyss because fewer people born in that generation are able to control themselves. So then society tries to "cure" that problem (which it created in the first place) with chemical lobotomy...
... but what happens when the chemicals for the lobotomies run out, or either become ineffective or actually counter-productive?
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Then I found out what they were up to. Had to set my foot down there.
It was an uphill battle on his behalf, but I finally prevailed, and they didn't put him on meds. At one point I had to actually say "well, I reckon we can see what the courts think of you folks putting him on babysitter-in-a-bottle instead of just doing your goddamned jobs. OR, I can pull him out of school altogether and just school him myself, and solve your problems for you so that you don't have to do your job at all. Maybe both... but you ain't putting him on any unnecessary chemicals just because YOU are lazy."
I'm not sure exactly what worked, but they eventually backed off when they saw I wasn't about to back down.
As you correctly observe, why in the hell would anyone voluntarily subject themselves to a chemical regimen that has a high probability of just making things worse? Why in the hell would they allow their CHILDREN to be subjected to that? Aren't we supposed to protect and nurture them rather than try to kill them off?
To be honest, this sort of thing is why I don't bitch too much about abortions. Some folks just ain't got no damned business reproducing, and it seems to be those very folks who have the highest incidence of inability to keep their goddamned knees together. I see no reason to allow them to bring kids into the world just to have someone to experiment on and chemically lobotomize.
I think their potential parents are already far enough down THAT road!
Don't get me wrong - I do believe that abortion is, generally speaking, murder as classically defined - the intentional killing of another human being without justification - but it could also be seen as a mercy-killing, considering the lives those kids would have to put up with if they were born.
"Reproductive rights" my dyin' ass! Their "reproductive rights" are being exercised when they fling those knees apart! If they get to an abortion clinic, that "reproductive rights" horse is already out of the gate, and they're just having to put it down because they lacked self control to begin with.
The root cause there is a lack of self control - we're not installing it in our kids, and then they are growing up not even having it in their tool kit to be able to install it in THEIR kids, and each generation is just sliding farther into that abyss because fewer people born in that generation are able to control themselves. So then society tries to "cure" that problem (which it created in the first place) with chemical lobotomy...
... but what happens when the chemicals for the lobotomies run out, or either become ineffective or actually counter-productive?
.