In a nutshell, his mission is to help create a less punitive world through what we know about ethics and the behavior sciences. We start by closing the worst institution in the United States of America for behavior modification. See below.

He's a Jesuit trained ethicist, a Georgetown University alumnus, Class of 1983. He became schizophrenic in 1979 as a sophomore, went home for a vacation, and then returned to the happy campus to complete his course of study on a part-time basis.





In 2008, at Georgetown's Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Dr. Robert Veatch, an editor of the Bioethics Encyclopedia, published Dave's review of the bold New Jersey Supreme Court's landmark civil rights ruling which requires parents and guardians to grant disabled people, especially those adjudicated as incapacitated, the Right to Self-Determination, which they must provide them in balance with the other required, obvious, and commonly-realized Right to Have One's Physiological and Safety Needs Fulfilled, usually known as the right to have someone look after your welfare or your best interest, should it be necessary.



Not only is empowering everyone with the fundamental Right to Choose the ethical thing to do, it's now also the legal thing to do.





So please be advised. The disabled community shall enforce this right, because common sense dictates that children and incapacitated adults have the right to say, "Leave me alone," and they need NOT be fully-informed of all the potential consequences of their choices in order to exercise this Right to Non-Compliance, for the notion of humane treatment sets in stone the right to say to anybody, "Get your hands off me," and so on and so forth!





This must be so, but it's not, and the advocates shall make it so, in cooperation with established attorneys, sooner or later, regardless of parental and pseudo-professional hemming and hawing which is now taking place.





Moreover than that, this Right to Humane Treatment is leagues more dignified, critical, and solid than the so-called "Right to Effective Treatment" which the harsh, coercive, data-driven, behavior modification torture profession, s ee throughout this blog, called Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), touts all over the internet under its "scientific dissemination groups." To these highly controlling individuals, the autistics they commonly "treat" have feelings that don't count in their environmental and behavioral "data" manipulations, because, as B.F. Skinner said, feelings and thoughts are "covert behaviors" that occur "under the skin." ABA cannot see them, chart them on a piece of graph paper, and accelerate their rate of response with Skittles or decelerate them with cold water they will spray in a face of a so-called "deviant non-compliant." Therefore, "ABA therapists" are empathy disabled, as they are barred from even trying to understand how their victims feel.