Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3661-3665 (22nd to 26th January 2018)
traroth:
I like Evie. She seems to master maieutics. In a socratic way, I mean.
Asking some accurate questions without freaking out is a far fetch from "psychoanalysis", guys...
Tova:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 24 Jan 2018, 19:34 ---I would argue that it’s without Faye’s consent due to Evie asking the kind of questions that you hear in a therapy session. She’s asking her girlfriend’s sister deeply probing questions over dinner, with her girlfriend right next to her. Evie is the proof of the old adage that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
There is a time and a place to ask these questions and dinner the first evening you’ve met the sister is not it.
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And yet Faye is completely comfortable in answering, so I don't understand the fuss.
This is the problem with getting offended on behalf of someone else who is perfectly capable of taking care of themselves.
gopher:
To me this is very similar to Claire's "involvement" with her brother's lovelife. Creepy and unwanted.
Case:
--- Quote from: Tova on 25 Jan 2018, 02:47 ---And yet Faye is completely comfortable in answering, so I don't understand the fuss.
This is the problem with getting offended on behalf of someone else who is perfectly capable of taking care of themselves.
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Generally, we tend to think similarly about "getting offended on behalf of others", but here, I have to cry "Objection, your honor!"
"Consent" is not the same as "going along with leading questions" - There's myriad reasons why someone might answer questions they don't want to even have people ask them. Conflict-avoidance. Submitting to authority ... or plain old "not understanding where this is going before it's too late".
"Consent" is not the same as "informed consent" - and apparently, that's something that shrinks (and especially research-shrinks) discuss a lot about. Like: A! LOT! I've not even really started poking (let alone skimming the stuff that turns up) and I'm already drowning in regulations, best practises, ethics codes, landmark congressional comittees & hearings and dozens of high-powered dedicated monitoring institutions.
http://www.apa.org/ethics/code/
http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/06/informed-consent.aspx
http://www.apa.org/monitor/jun04/ethics.aspx
traroth:
--- Quote from: gopher on 25 Jan 2018, 02:57 ---To me this is very similar to Claire's "involvement" with her brother's lovelife. Creepy and unwanted.
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Knowing Faye as we know her after all those years, I think we can safely assume that if Evie was doing something "unwanted", Faye would let her know in very direct and non-ambiguous terms...
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