When you read much more, you will not be so surprised. The worst reality of MLC is that those abducted by the aliens are no longer themselves, or human, or within reach of their own former values. They are living on the opposite side of Alice's Looking Glass, over in Mad Hatterville. They live in Stephen King's version of Father Knows Best.
If a trip to the woodshed would help them, I'd be selling woodsheds to the LBS of the world and would have more money than Bill Gates. Alas, it would be a waste of good lumber.
