Neither the author or any of the comments recognize that psychiatry is a business. The reason DD was sent for therapy is that courts employ and contract with psychiatrists. In the criminal justice system psychiatry has a major role. Treating crime as illness was done on a major scale by National Socialists in Germany. There is no appeal from a diagnosis. Competency evaluations, mandated therapy, anger management are businesses. The same criminals who sell addicting drugs to unsuspecting users, establish rehab centers to milk the addicts and taxpayers for ever increasing income.
[From article]
“As part of his probation, Mr. D’Souza . . . will also be required to undergo therapeutic counseling.” Assuming this to be an accurate report, one can only conclude that America is undergoing a gentle but nonetheless sinister cultural revolution.
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The only justification for forcing him to undergo therapeutic counseling would be if crime were illness.
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If crime is illness, no limit exists to the treatment that may be employed to cure it and nothing inhibits the use of ferocious remedies to root it out. As Lewis intuited, cruelty may then be disguised as benevolence, and there is no cruelty like that which believes it is doing good.
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it is also likely to invite dishonesty on the part of the “treated,” who will be expected to accept the counselor’s point of view without demur, however ludicrous or demeaning it may be. Contestation will be taken as a sign that the patient-criminal is not cured and therefore in need of yet more therapeutic counseling.
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Punishment is not therapy; crime is not disease. The Soviets thought that dissent was crime and crime was disease: therefore, with them, dissent was disease. We have not yet reached that point, but “therapy” for illegal campaign contributions is coming uncomfortably close to it.
http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon0924td.html
THEODORE DALRYMPLE
The Reeducation of Dinesh D’Souza
Crime is not disease.
24 September 2014
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