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Ursus:
Culpability is heaviest at the top; it doesn't matter whether Jayne was rarely there, she was responsible for how things were run. If they weren't run right, it is her head that is more on the block and rightfully so. Otherwise, you are using the same argument that Mel Sembler used in washing his hands from what happened inside the Straight facilities. He claimed no personal interaction too.
Gee, I might as well start a company that sells kids toys painted with uranium. When they come to take me away, I'll blame it on the salesmen. After all, I had no personal interaction with the stuff.
psy:
--- Quote from: ""Ursus"" ---Culpability is heaviest at the top; it doesn't matter whether Jayne was rarely there, she was responsible for how things were run. If they weren't run right, it is her head that is more on the block and rightfully so. Otherwise, you are using the same argument that Mel Sembler used in washing his hands from what happened inside the Straight facilities. He claimed no personal interaction too.
Gee, I might as well start a company that sells kids toys painted with uranium. When they come to take me away, I'll blame it on the salesmen. After all, I had no personal interaction with the stuff.
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Well. What if some cult leader had convinced you that Uranium was good for you? Yellowcake anyone?
Ursus:
--- Quote from: ""psy"" ---Well. What if some cult leader had convinced you that Uranium was good for you? Yellowcake anyone?
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Who cares what some cult leader convinced Jayne to do? The buck has to stop somewhere. Jayne is running a business. It doesn't really matter if she has snow or cheese between her ears, she still has certain responsibilities inherent to running a business. Period.
If she were giving out the Benchmark wisdom by handing it out to people on a street corner for free, then you can wax poetic about whether she was snowed or is snowing. Realistically, as everyone here knows, it is more than a little of both.
Do note that there is a difference between personal culpability and professional culpability.
If a staff member's actions were outside the company norm, then that individual could be held to task, on an individual basis, for destructive actions towards George. From what I've read, those actions were within Benchmark's standard modus operandi. They were, in fact, SOP. Correct me if I am wrong here, please.
Even in such a case, i.e., with regards to an out-of-line staff person, Benchmark would still be culpable because they did not train or supervise their staff appropriately. And they have a responsibility to do so, contractually as well as that just inherent to running any kind of business.
When Larry Dubinsky could not be dissuaded from keeping his pawing fingers off of female students at Hyde, and a parent sued, both Larry Dubinsky and Hyde School were deemed culpable. Dubinsky's actions were beyond the pale – individual culpability, both personal as well as professional (he was faculty, even dean of Students at one point). Meanwhile, Hyde was not only negligent in that they were not able to keep him in check (they apparently did not try, probably because they did not take the years of complaints seriously), but also since they continued to require contact between the Plaintiff and Dubinsky even after formal complaints were made.
Note that what I said above has to do with legal justice, which is but a crude approximation of true moral justice.
Ursus:
Sorry if I'm on a yammer re. legal justice, it's not personal... Off-forum I've been working my way through the dozens of pages of Richard Ofshe's testimony in the West Memphis Three case and I am duly outraged...
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dishdutyfugitive:
URSUS
Well said.
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