Re:Troubled teens left traumatised by tough love camps
by nextaccountic on Saturday June 19, 2021 @06:31PM
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Of course some kids will get life lessons out of this experience, but they would get lessons from kinds of adversities anyway. I don't see the point. For me it's just cruelty for the sake of cruelty.
Another comment here talked how Canadian indigenous children were subject to this treatment for over a century https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27559649 and this wasn't made in the best interest of the victims.
And anyway, I don't believe in having institutionalized "tough love" could ever work. This kind of institution often attract sadistic people, that enjoy making the kids suffer.
Another comment here talked how Canadian indigenous children were subject to this treatment for over a century https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27559649 and this wasn't made in the best interest of the victims.
And anyway, I don't believe in having institutionalized "tough love" could ever work. This kind of institution often attract sadistic people, that enjoy making the kids suffer.