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The Troubled Teen Industry / Re: Do Survivors Lie: Part III (The Aplogy)
« on: November 07, 2010, 03:21:48 PM »Quote from: "RobertBruce"
QuoteI think you are trying to do damage control here Psy. If someone says they were kidnapped and abused in the same story we know we have to treat the subject of abuse the same way we treat the subject of kidnapping. They are not to be treated as literal definitions but rather they would be opinions. We could not assume that the word abuse is spoke in the legal sense. It needs to be understood the same as the kidnapping is... an opinion.
Again, according to your own standards a term need not fit the legal definition in order to be used. It was only a few years ago you were up in arms over the statement that ASR is not a school due to the fact that they didnt hand out diplomas, credits aren't transferable, and they aren't considered a school by Mass or Federal DOE's. It didn't meet the legal definition of a school, despite that you stomped your feet and insisted because it met the dictionary's definition it was in fact a school. You refused to accept the difference between a legal definition, and what is found in a dictionary.
This is no different. Kidnapping as it is described on here fits the dictionary definition, therefore these kids are not lying or exaggerating. You cannot have it both ways Whooter.
That being the case you are still empty on coming up with a single example of a survivor lying about being abused.
i disagree that the kidnapping of teens by Mitt Romeny 's Bain Capital 's Aspen Education Group Cult, et al, fails to meet the legal definition of kidnap. The problem is that the feds are disinterested in enforcing the law on behalf of teens. Similarly, lynching always met the definition of murder, but the feds were disinterested in enforcing the law on behalf of black. Teens = the new niggers.