On 10/21/2015 8:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 21 Oct 2015, at 00:59, Brent Meeker wrote:
A strange, and sad, case. But Facilitated Communication would seem
to be a corollary of Bruno's idea that conscious persons are "out
there" in platonia and just need the proper physics in order to
interact with us.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/magazine/the-strange-case-of-anna-stubblefield.html?_r=0
It vindicates also the idea that nobody is stupid. Some have just have
communication problem, when it is not the listener who is the one with
the reception problem.
That's a very beautiful paper Brent. I like how it illustrates many
difficulties, notably the principle of less dangerous consequence (to
bet that something/someone is conscious is less dangerous than to bet
it is not, as their falsities leads to different harms. But in the
case of someone disabled, it can be dangerous for the one applying it.
It can make you suspect of felony and send you in jail.
Very sad story, but it is hard to condemn the judge, as such abuse
exists, and the "facilitated communication", even if genuine in some
cases, might not be in every case,
And I'd say not in this case. Romantic love always involves some
projection of a lover's ideals onto the loved one. This just seems to
be an extreme case. That only Anna was able to facilitate DJ's
communication, that DJ wrote very literate, even erudite, love letters
to Anna, that he did not seem to recognize or acknowledge her in court
all indicates to me the that the "communication" was Anna's invention.
She was obviously an emotionally unstable person. Even if DJ had been
fully functional, handsome, and smart would it be sensible for Anna to
offer to sign in blood that she would leave her husband and children and
marry DJ?
so there are no simple way to resolve the case, and it will be the
judge's personal conviction which should prevail, I guess.
In this case, if the account is correct, I would side with Anna and
D.J, though. She is sent to jail, which is sad enough, but D.J. is
sent back into being considered as a vegetable, which is sad and a bit
frightening.
I think it is a ridiculous injustice that Anna was sent to prison for
more that a few months. So far as I can tell she didn't harm anyone
but herself. DJ did have the intellectual capacity to appreciate sex
nor to be psychologically harmed by it.
Brent
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