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Originally Posted by Vibrating Obsidian
I get your point, but we can't compare the physical body to the mental body. He may have been physically harmed and had his bike damaged, but his mind was healthy and strong enough to fight the protesters and propose a different offer.
And an ill mind can't always think rationally like he did. And an ill mind is not just genetic, but also environmental. The problem with saying it's genetic is it says "That's the way it is", with no responsibility on no one but the treated one, and some responsibility of therapist and psychiatrists, yet when some of them gaslight the client, they can make them feel it's their fault.
Biased to my feelings from therapy and psychiatry, but just because it's biased and I am aware that what I say has an element of bias, doesn't mean it's wrong and surely doesn't mean no one else is aware of it.
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I think the point of the previous post (the one you responded to here) was to give creedence to Darkness's idea. Darkness earlier was saying how he felt abusers should be made to compensate their victim in the form of paying for their treatment and any complications to their life that the abuse has caused (ie if the person is unable to work, the abuser pays the person an income). If, however, we continue to incarcerate abusers and other offenders, these types of things cannot happen and therefore the abuse victim not only has to deal with the fact that he or she was abused, but all the ramifications it caused in his or her life, as well as the stigma that goes with it. Basically, making the victim...the criminal, while the criminal gets jail. Yea, jail sounds bad...but it is getting to be cushy enough, I know people here where I live talk about how "it's (jail) is better than living here"