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what jumps out so far as i am concerned in this case is that these girls seemed to treat the patients they abused as toys first and as human beings maybe to the extent that the abstract idea of these folk being humiliated made them more interesting as toys.
i can't imagine such a sequence of events getting started without a wholesale breakdown of empathy. so to my mind, the ethical problem these girls performed is central--this is obviously abuse legally--it is obviously an abuse of power----but the ethical dimension is kinda chilling. it's like something went dead inside these people.
when i think about this situation--to the extent that it is present for anyone through the accounts linked in this thread---i do base my evaluation on an empathetic reaction, but it goes toward the folk with alzheimers. it's such a horrific disorder which already undermines any sense of agency by scrambling the way memory organizes itself...and in the facility that is set up to care for them, they are treated like toys.
i don't see a defense of this being possible.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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