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Random story time: Don't point that... by RetiQlum22009-08-07 09:10:45
  I hacked a "social worker" type psychologist once. by adiplomat2009-08-07 11:18:58
    It's fun to mess with their little heads isn't it? (n/t) by Lab Rat2009-08-07 11:29:42
      I thought it was, until I saw her lose it. by adiplomat2009-08-07 11:36:14
        A psychobabbler that can get broken that waty... by RetiQlum22009-08-07 11:39:31
          Exactly by bitflipper2009-08-07 12:36:49
            True, but by MatthewDBA2009-08-07 12:45:15
              Now, *that* is highly debatable by bitflipper 2009-08-07 13:03:11
Is it wrong to show someone a truth?

It was entirely up to her what to do with that truth, whether to use it for self-betterment, or whether to run and hide from it. But Dippy was no more wrong to show her that truth than he would have been to point out that she had toilet paper stuck to her shoe.

In fact, he was quite correct to point out to her that her preconceptions were interfering with her ability to do her job; he was strong enough to not be damaged by her ongoing refusal to set aside her judgments and her pet theories and to pay attention to what was really being said and what was going on in front of her face. Can that be said for all of her patients or clients, though? Even if they had all been so lucky, until Dippy exposed her folly, as to not have been hurt by it, would that have remained the case if she had never been confronted with what she was doing?

If a doctor is constantly mis-prescribing a medication, is it wrong to point this out to him or her? If a surgeon consistently mis-performs a procedure, is it wrong to inform him or her of that fact? Why should a physician of the mind be exempt?

Truths can be unpleasant, and we may not wish to know them. But that does not make it wrong for others to try to show us the truth.

Perhaps Dippy was vindictive in doing so, and, perhaps, for that vindictiveness, he may have something for which to answer. But for showing the truth for what it was? How can he be at fault for witnessing to the truth?
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                In this case, yes. by MatthewDBA2009-08-07 13:13:26
                  And unfortunately I must go by MatthewDBA2009-08-07 13:16:12
                    We can pick it up in a Phil.Corner, sometime by bitflipper2009-08-07 13:34:49
                  I point out two differentiating factors by bitflipper2009-08-07 13:22:13

 

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