Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
jheartney:
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--- Quote from: tywren on 24 Apr 2015, 05:58 ---In closing, i'd like to ask, that when you start making absolute statements such as "anyone who does it belongs in prison too.", you stop, and carefully think it through first.
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You make a fair point, but your medical example would not, I think, be a criminal offence in the first place, when dealing with a patient who is no longer capable of giving informed consent, would it? At least I am assuming you have some lawful authority to administer medical treatment without such consent?
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There's a legal entity called a "conservatorship" which can apply to individuals no longer competent to handle their financial affairs and/or their personal affairs. This happened with my mother when she got dementia in old age. She was prone to angry paranoid delusions, so the home where she lived gave her Haldol, which kept her in a good mood and fairly cooperative. By this time she was not coherent, and babbled rather like a toddler. In no way could she give consent to the drugs, but without them her life and those of her caregivers would have been much worse.
Giving drugs to a competent adult without consent is a serious crime. Claire clearly qualifies as competent. Anyone who gave her a pot brownie without telling her what is was would deserve prosecution. Same with anyone administering roofies, etc.
Endellion:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 24 Apr 2015, 16:49 ---Well, there's only one recourse. They all need to get together, buy a nice big plot of land and set up the Questionable Commune. :)
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Hannelore has already got this planned out.
JRDelirio:
IMO a mission to "chill" or "loosen up" Claire would be ill-advised; she's not a stick in the mud, she can be relaxed in a personal setting, she is in no need of unsolicited intervention. But there are things she takes seriously and her career is one of those things. Alas, she is surrounded by an army of professional HakunaMatata-ers. And for some reason a lot of people think "oooh, someone doesn't think this is funny, let's tease them over it even more, watch their face get red" is the height of wit. As soon as she was told this was serious, Tai should have just said, "just kidding!". But instead she keeps trolling Claire.
--- Quote from: Meilu on 24 Apr 2015, 06:24 ---. I've had bosses like Tai, I don't like it either. There's a time and a place for everything... being drunk or high at work is wrong. Pushing work off on your friends because you are drunk or high is wrong. That's not a "method to the madness" style of management. I'm not uptight, I let loose in appropriate settings... The place of employment isn't ever the right place.
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Thing is, Tai very often is used to shout out "Hey check out how open and loose and progressive is the culture here at SMIF!!" -- the discussions of not just drug use (not just weed but also LSD and X, both portrayed as no big deal) but relationship issues in her early strips, the piercing expedition with Marten, etc. Though we don't see much of the actual college life, it seems a reasonable assumption to think of it as a stereotypical northeastern LibArts school where everyone uses something mood-altering, the academic departments are progressive to a fault and the administration's major goal is just to get through the year without anything "scandalous" hitting the press. (And BTW no, IRL "everyone" does not use weed at college, there are many who don't, and even a small minority who do not use anything )
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Akima on 25 Apr 2015, 07:43 ---You make a fair point, but your medical example would not, I think, be a criminal offence in the first place, when dealing with a patient who is no longer capable of giving informed consent, would it? At least I am assuming you have some lawful authority to administer medical treatment without such consent?
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Hopefully. I have met people who were mentally gone enough to not be able to provide consent, but that was generally in the crazy-house, and required a judge making a decision after speaking to the other patient, the doctors, and their respective legal people.
Radium_Coyote:
To be fair, I was probably had at the aforementioned bachanalia: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2869
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