Here's some questions, John. Did you think ever think it could be harmfully abusive and dangerous to have Michael kidnapped, then imprisoned in a closed institution ungoverned by any legal body and without authentication of the “therapy” it claimed to offer.
Do you feel responsible at all for what became of Micheal? Do you feel remorse? You said an ASR victim’s description of its abusive “therapy” synched with your own son’s description, but that your son benefited from it.
Considering your son is dead, would you like to reconsider the logic behind that statement?
Was posting his photo along with the message "addiction was the disease that took him" a way of postmortemly "winning," of “proving” that he was an addict, the position you and ASR, fought to make him accept for a long time.
Personally, I'd say "memorializing" him as an addict and everlasting example of how bad teens can end up humiliates him. Id say using his corpse as an ad for your business exploits him.
I’d say humiliating and exploiting him is something you rationalize as love. I’d say you’ve been doing that for a very, very long time.
