It’s just a general pattern of overlooking certain kinds of terrible suffering that is not very visible. My go-to example is that, even by the most conservative estimates, at least 1% of children go through severe physical, emotional and sexual abuse growing up, which means that, if you live in the city, there is a high chance that there a girl being raped by her brother/uncle/father within a mile of you right now and no one would hear about it or pay attention, until it’s too late. A decade or two or three down the road she will end up in a psych ward with incurable CPTSD manifesting as a host of personality disorders, only to be marginalized and often abused and neglected there, as well.
Omelas was so much better, even for the one suffering child, compared to our society. At least everyone there knew about the suffering child, and it was not completely in vain. And there is nowhere to walk away, it’s no better anywhere else.
There’s an enormous amount of work into fighting child-hood abuse in the last decades. We criminalized hitting children and have see-something-say-something as a paradigm for whole of of different policies. While those policies don’t bring childhood abuse to zero society tries very hard. The LGBT community that used to ally with pedophiles stopped doing so and people who are advocating for the marginalized group of pedophiles are now clearly out of the coalition because caring about children not being abused is central to the modern left.
incurable
That’s such a strange word. The word incurable is a license to avoid accountability for not curing illnesses. It’s a class of illnesses for which psychiatric hospitals lack the skills to cure them at this point in time. It’s a feature of the psychatristic community and not an inherent feature of the disease.
As the Schizophrenia Research Project suggests it’s plausible that for a good portion of them the drugs that the psychologists give them inhibits the natural healing process.
It’s just a general pattern of overlooking certain kinds of terrible suffering that is not very visible. My go-to example is that, even by the most conservative estimates, at least 1% of children go through severe physical, emotional and sexual abuse growing up, which means that, if you live in the city, there is a high chance that there a girl being raped by her brother/uncle/father within a mile of you right now and no one would hear about it or pay attention, until it’s too late. A decade or two or three down the road she will end up in a psych ward with incurable CPTSD manifesting as a host of personality disorders, only to be marginalized and often abused and neglected there, as well.
Omelas was so much better, even for the one suffering child, compared to our society. At least everyone there knew about the suffering child, and it was not completely in vain. And there is nowhere to walk away, it’s no better anywhere else.
There’s an enormous amount of work into fighting child-hood abuse in the last decades. We criminalized hitting children and have see-something-say-something as a paradigm for whole of of different policies. While those policies don’t bring childhood abuse to zero society tries very hard. The LGBT community that used to ally with pedophiles stopped doing so and people who are advocating for the marginalized group of pedophiles are now clearly out of the coalition because caring about children not being abused is central to the modern left.
That’s such a strange word. The word incurable is a license to avoid accountability for not curing illnesses. It’s a class of illnesses for which psychiatric hospitals lack the skills to cure them at this point in time. It’s a feature of the psychatristic community and not an inherent feature of the disease.
As the Schizophrenia Research Project suggests it’s plausible that for a good portion of them the drugs that the psychologists give them inhibits the natural healing process.