#abuse

Power without abuse loses its charm. ↗

— Paul Valery

#charm #loses #power #without

... Other students lived on campus and got drunk at parties. Other students dated and graduated and got married and led normal lives. She wanted to marry an ex-con and pretend being kidnapped had been a normal thing she could forget about. ... ↗

— Michelle D. Argyle

#kidnapped #neglected #stockholm-syndrome #dating

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home. ↗

— Matt Blunt

#at-risk #basic #cannot #child #child abuse

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#abuse #choice #good #had #sexually

I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn't meet any of them until 1993. ↗

— Kato Kaelin

#any #charges #domestic #happened #i

More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people. ↗

— Elijah Cummings

#across #among #communities #deaths #effects

Pity is a benign form of abuse. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#benign #form #pity

Typically, one of the arguments against the ethicalness of chemical castration is that it affects the very core of personhood, part of which is sexual drive and sexual fantasizing, by indirectly acting on the CNS (…) But, I think, an equally good argument could be that it interferes with basic homeostatic processes of the organism, regulated by the autonomic PNS and the endocrine system. Maybe the public tends to agree with chemical castration of sexual offenders, especially of pedophiles, not only because of the terrible acts they have committed, but also because there is a hidden prejudice that the “real or genuine person” of such offenders is a mind that has been captured by hormones, and that there is nothing wrong in “killing off these hormones and liberate the person from their vicious influence” (…) I say it is a prejudice because part of what it means to be a mentally healthy and well adapted individual involves a huge influence of the hormonal component, not only testosterone, but all other hormones, and, as a matter of fact, sexual offenders do not have abnormally high levels of free testosterone. ↗

— István Aranyosi

#hormones #neuroethics #pedophilia #pns #sex

Joe knew that for some, really for most, the derivations of belladonna that blurred their vision and caused their hearts to race would, as well, hasten their forgetting of detail. They would not recall, not readily, any sense of pain or shame or doubt or threat of danger. [] There were always children to be used. Members were obliged to offer their children, although not necessarily every child in a family was used. Some were found to be not suited for the rigor. Some were left alone so that if the involved children in a family were to attempt to tell, siblings could not corroborate their experience. ↗

— Judith Spencer

#dissociation #dissociative-identity-disorder #evil #evil-men #mpd

Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil. ↗

— William L. Jenkins

#american #current #exposed #format #fraud