![]() ![]() Remember that these particular kidnappers, who at one point denied one of their victims even the freedom to go to the bathroom, didn’t belong to the common criminal stock. We don’t generally praise the intentions of kidnappers. ![]() ![]() The authors, Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, certainly don’t condone this sort of thing, but how far do they go in condemning it? Their characterization (in the book’s subtitle) of the perpetrators as having “good intentions” best sums up their attitude. Neither the police nor the school afterward chose to prosecute these students, or even to discipline them. Outside the office, students video-recorded themselves making sure that the room had no escape routes and that there was enough student “presence” to prevent administrators from leaving. ![]()
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