Should Autistic Children Be Electrocuted In Their Sleep For Pissing Themselves?
For general weirdness, this story really beats all. I should also add an advisory that if you're getting ready for bed, read this tomorrow if you want to sleep. Just when you thought civilization had reached a point where at least the big brutalities were gone, along comes something like this that really brings home just how fragile the presumption of civility is in our world, and how easily it can just vanish. Morally speaking, it seems pretty obvious--but on the other hand, what happens when you take that away? For example, Melarsoprol is a medicine that poisons and kills the patient 10 percent of the time, and yet it's often prescribed, simply because the condition it can cure is more fatal. What a shocking conundrum it may be that if you're dealing with a kid who, based on his history, will surely and grotesquely savage himself or others in some way, which is more tortuous?--and therefore, which is the lesser evil? I leave it to you to judge, and I have no idea what the...