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Middle-School Strip Search Ruled Unconstitutional
yuna49 writes "The US Supreme Court today ruled 8-1 that the strip search of a 13-year-old girl by officials in an Arizona middle school was unconstitutional. However, by a vote of 7-2, the Court also ruled that the individual school officials could not be held personally liable. A suit for damages against the school district itself is still going forward. We discussed this case at length back in March when the Court decided to hear the case on appeal."
Thing is, if she or one of the other students had overdosed on something, you and the rest of the slashcrowd would be saying the school staff were negligent and demanding the principal's head on a plate.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Doing things that others tell you to do, despite how you may feel about it, does indeed reveal signs of social conditioning... human or not. Sadly, you too show such traits. You seem to think that authority naturally has such psychological power, when in fact the very concept of such authority is very far removed from nature. The entire system is a social construct to produce such responses in people. Is it the girl's fault that she did what she had been trained to do? No, not necessarily. She could have just as easily gone against the norm however.
People like that don't simply have power, they are given the concept of power by their victims. They will stop abusing such traits only when others stop hiding and take them away.
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune