According to Church teaching, respect for human life requires respect for one's own body, precluding unhealthy behavior, the abuse of food, alcohol, medicines, illegal drugs, tattoos and piercings.
The behavior is inexcusable, but the abuse of power familiar.
Prolonged drug or alcohol use can lead to disruptive or even antisocial behaviors, criminal activity, and the abuse of more dangerous drugs.
Those closest to you, those best acquainted with your desires, tactics, operational policies, and your patterns of behavior are so accustomed to the abuse of power, so inured to the stench of corruption that they assume what you would want to is for gubernatorial influence to be used in the execution of a personal vendetta.
Have we paid no attention to the leadership failures in another similar venue, the behavior of bishops denying responsibility for the abuse of children in the Catholic Church?
The records included specific complaints — from account blocks for fraudulent behavior, abuse of the referral system and persistent cancelers.
The seeming lack of concern about behavior that cost his former employer money, the sense of entitlement and belief in personal impunity, and the supposed failures to remember are disturbing enough; the accusations about his behavior toward women, abuse of authority, and inability to follow the law should be presumptively disqualifying in a person who seeks to unite and lead.
Elizabeth Gershoff ("Report on Physical Punishment in the United States") and Susan Bitensky ("Corporal Punishment of Children") have recently summarized the data: physical punishment does not work; it makes things worse at every developmental level (it is associated with delinquency, antisocial behavior, abuse of one's own children later on and so forth); and there are effective alternatives.
Such behavior is an abuse of power.
Data collected included socio-economic characteristics, Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), substance use (tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis) and hazardous behaviors: alcohol abuse problems, smoking, consumption of cannabis, eating disorders, and cyber addiction.
