I’ve been thinking about this, in the context of having worked in a nursing home for four years. I came to two conclusions: One, her experiences don’t actually surprise me all that much; two, it seems quite reasonable to me to estimate that there were probably between one and three murders or attempted murders (using a definition that includes intentional negligence but does not include legally-actionable accidents) per year in the 200-some-bed facility where I worked—and the place where I worked was not actually bad as nursing homes go.
Institutions suck in general, and it seems to me that there might be some low-hanging fruit to be picked in terms of figuring out what it is about them that tends to make peoples’ moral systems break down. (And I’m speaking from experience there, too. :( )
A’yup.
I’ve been thinking about this, in the context of having worked in a nursing home for four years. I came to two conclusions: One, her experiences don’t actually surprise me all that much; two, it seems quite reasonable to me to estimate that there were probably between one and three murders or attempted murders (using a definition that includes intentional negligence but does not include legally-actionable accidents) per year in the 200-some-bed facility where I worked—and the place where I worked was not actually bad as nursing homes go.
Institutions suck in general, and it seems to me that there might be some low-hanging fruit to be picked in terms of figuring out what it is about them that tends to make peoples’ moral systems break down. (And I’m speaking from experience there, too. :( )