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When Behavioral Compliance Becomes Coercive Treatment: ABA, PBS, Disability Rights, and the Torture Framework

BLB 07, September 2026

Abstract Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), Positive Behavior Support (PBS), and related behavioral interventions are not legally or ethically uniform practices. Some involve communication support, environmental modification, skill development, and voluntary reinforcement. Others have involved forced compliance, escape extinction, restraint, seclusion, contingent deprivation, physical prompting, punishment, and the suppression of harmless…

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From Human Rights to Cosmic Context: Rethinking Universality in an Evolutionary Universe

BLB 15, December 2025

For decades, “universal human rights” have been treated as moral bedrock: timeless, self-evident entitlements belonging to every human simply by virtue of being human. Philosophers like David N. Stamos have challenged this picture, arguing that if we take evolutionary biology seriously, we find no such innate, equal, universal rights inscribed…

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The 50% Responsibility of the Neuronormative

BLB 25, September 2023

In the realm of human culture and society, the notion of superiority is often subjective and elusive. It is essential to recognize that there is no inherent superiority of neurotypical culture and society over neurodivergent ones, nor vice versa. Instead, what we encounter are differences, each with its own set…