{"id":2728,"date":"2020-03-06T16:59:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T16:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/?p=2728"},"modified":"2020-03-06T17:04:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T17:04:19","slug":"we-are-all-on-the-titanic-withholding-treatment-known-to-be-effective-by-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/?p=2728","title":{"rendered":"We are all on the Titanic: Withholding treatment known to be effective \u2013 by law."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Titanic was built to withstand water in four of its forward water-tight compartments. Once water went beyond it was inevitable that the ship would sink. The water would win, no matter what efforts were made to stop it.
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Well, folks, I told you so. We have reached the cultural fifth compartment. The FDA has now banned ASDs. Those are shock devices – in lovely anklet form – for controlling things like self-harm. Meaning people who gouge their own eyes out and things like that.
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Why is this the equivalent of flooding the fifth compartment? Because humans are the most dangerous creatures on the planet. We are designed to viciously kill things. Punishment inhibits those behaviors by creating discriminations – we kill to defend ourselves, our families, our tribes. We kill to get food and protect food. A child who wantonly kills small animals is a hero – 10,000 years ago. Not so much, today. If you don’t want your child doing that you apply contingent punishment and the behavior is checked. A discrimination limits the behavior to specific contexts. “You may only kill small animals if you intend to eat them.” and “You may not torture them.” If society sticks to that type of rule, the water never gets to the fifth compartment.
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Now imagine that your brain is different from other people. It fires off electrical impulses in a way that yours doesn’t. You are helpless to control a constant impulse to fling yourself at walls to break your nose. Perhaps because the pain of the broken nose overpowers the urge to break your own nose. If that sounds illogical, it is. However, it is no different than a society who says that normal humans may not inflict lesser pain to stop broken noses.
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I spoke at an ABAI regional conference in Toronto a few years ago. The majority of the people in attendance work with autism. The title of my presentation was ‘Punish or Perish”. I was not being hyperbolic. A few months after the conference, I got this email from an attendee. This is a perfect summation of the problem.
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“Here in my current position, I often struggle with years and years of ‘reinforcement’ procedures that still have my students breaking their own noses and requiring 2-person holds \u2013 often on a daily basis, and an absolute resistance to even discussing the possibility of using a punishment procedure.”
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The water has lapped above the fifth bulkhead. The poor wretches condemned to breaking their own noses are now left to man the life-boats of their sinking ship. In the process, they will harm others who are charged with stopping them from self-injury. Anyone who suggests the use of contingent punishment to stop the injury will be punished professionally for speaking their minds.
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And now we see what ‘modern’ psychology gives use. A return to rubber rooms, restraint chairs, big, brawny attendants who slam patients to the ground like deputy sheriffs in a bar brawl that never ends. Oops. I forgot the mind-killing drugs.
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Ironically, the ban on ASDs displays the cruel indifference of cowardly minds. Not willing to defend what is so obviously required to reduce suffering, they ban a device that can manage the destruction – while having no solution to the problem.
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Get ready for the water to flood the fifth compartment and all that implies. Once ethical behavior is vilified, the boat is going to sink. There is nothing you can do to stop it, it’s just a matter of how long the water will take to get to your deck chair.
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The Titanic was built to withstand water in four of its forward water-tight compartments. Once water went beyond it was inevitable that the ship would sink. The water would win, no matter what efforts were made to stop it. Well, folks, I told you so. We have reached the cultural fifth compartment. The FDA has now banned ASDs. Those are shock devices – in lovely anklet form – for controlling things like self-harm. Meaning people … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2733,"href":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions\/2733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}