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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: RE: psychotics
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sgoehrin@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (scott goehring)

>another thing i found curious while reading _Scientology: The
>Fundamentals of Thought_:  Hubbard defines a psychotic as "an
>individual who cannot handle himself or his environment well enough to
>survive and who must be cared for to protect others from him or to
>protect him from himself." (p.159)
>
>this definition clearly implies that infants are psychotic.  
 
    Hubbard has made this exact statement.  Children, because 
    they are stuck in their own needs, are psychotic.

>it also
>suggests that people like Nobel laureate Stephen Hawking, who would
>not live long without constant care, are, in some manner of speaking,
>psychotic.  yet i doubt many of us are willing to accept that infants
>and the physically disabled are psychotic!
>
>does Hubbard have something against people with handicaps?

    Only if they don't have lots of money.
    
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