What’s often sold as care or correction is more about risk management, institutional liability, or social control. In your case, a child’s distress was handled with force instead of understanding. This is not an exception but part of a long and brutal history of how states and institutions treat those who cannot—or will not—conform.

The structure rewards those who can turn their rage outward in calibrated, socially acceptable ways (e.g., through sadistic control masked as professionalism) while punishing those whose rage, pain, or refusal leaks, erupts, or refuses translation into bureaucratic language. And society then calls this “maladaptation,” compounding the harm by denying the rationality and context of the response.

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