Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Bad reporting Hazards to Homeless article Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 08:02:39 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 66 Message-ID: References: <20240413162248.000059fe@example.com> <20240414115816.00002f6c@example.com> <17c68b3bbff3bbdb$39147$3340453$c0d58a68@news.newsdemon.com> Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 14:02:40 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="cc29c015af91339deb5a1978f4072780"; logging-data="990783"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18pX2wSI1GE+5+BKNbj2Oo9" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:uxjBBidvTkHB5Ppg6VTrZVwhAXQ= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4467 On 4/15/24 4:32 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article > <17c68b3bbff3bbdb$39147$3340453$c0d58a68@news.newsdemon.com>, > moviePig wrote: > >> On 4/14/2024 3:10 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>> In article <20240414115816.00002f6c@example.com>, >>> Rhino wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 23:20:47 -0700 >>>> The Horny Goat wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 16:22:48 -0400, Rhino >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> If the homeless were allowed agency, there would inevitably be >>>>>> pressure to hold them accountable for their actions. That would >>>>>> undermine the "progressive" Saviours who are going to fix everything >>>>>> with vast new and expensive - and almost certainly futile - programs >>>>>> to help the poor darlings. It's far better to just declare them all >>>>>> to be helpless captives of their addictions and mental health so >>>>>> that "help" can be applied in whatever fashion the government and >>>>>> their agents in the civil service deem necessary. Many many billions >>>>>> of tax dollars can then be wasted on schemes that won't solve the >>>>>> problem but WILL enrich the agencies that run the schemes. >>>>>> >>>>> You're suggesting forcible confinement in mental health facilities >>>> >>>> Actually, no, I was not even *thinking* of doing that. >>> >>> You may not be, but I am. If you're violently mentally ill, walking >>> around threatening people and attacking them, you need to be removed >>> from society. If your illness is such that treatment is ineffective, >>> then you stay there forever. But there's no reason the rest of us should >>> have to run the risk of being attacked, stabbed, set on fire, whatever >>> your delusions are telling you to do just going about our daily lives. >> >> Actually, there is *some* reason we run such risks: we give personal >> freedom the benefit of doubt under necessarily imperfect diagnoses. > > A mentally ill guy diagnosis himself perfectly when he violently attacks > someone. At that point we know something must be done about him that > involves removing him from society. The only question is whether that > removal is permanent or not. > Kinda like attacking cops with flagpole spears? Like that kind of violent attacks? Or beating cops with fire extinguishers and cutting off fingers and gouging out eyes? That kind of mental illness? Because you're not going to believe this! There's a guy who wants to let a thousand of those violent mentally ill CRIMINALS back out on the street. I know! Hard to believe, isn't it? -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0