hello from the APA convention! I'll bet that we are having more fun than you all had in Anaheim last month!
Great decision, eh? One of my instructors is on the Council and was able to cast a vote for this resolution. Need to find him and say thanks.
The funny thing about this decision at this convention is that there hasn't been a lot of talk here about it - it was just assumed that it would pass because it was the right thing. No real protests even (though they were expected). There were a couple of guys with handwritten signs (repent, and other related messages) out on Front Street in front of the Convention Center (centre?) earlier today I heard, but I never saw them. The only thing I saw out there all day were the canteen trucks selling hotdogs and falafel.
Wouldn't it be nice if at church conventions it could also be assumed that the right thing would be done and thus be a non-issue? Of course I am proud of the APA for this decision.
The big topic here remains finding a way to push for the Council to draw up rules that no psychologist can ever help the government torture. The medical association has so far been unable to stop physicians from participating in executions, perhaps we can stop psychologists from helping in torture.
I'm off to see Toronto's Chinatown now. It is a full day of presentations here tomorrow and I have to rest my eyes before the PowerPoint projectors start again. Have I ever mentioned how much I hate PowerPoint?
And when I get home I still have a million boxes left to unpack from the move!
He reports; you decide.
Yeah, that will be the day ;=)
ReplyDeletePoor baby. He has to rest his eyes in Chinatown. And he hates PowerPoint! I'm not subjected to PowerPoint enough to have worked up a real hatred of it.
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