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On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 04:50:26 -0500, trotsky <gmsingh@email.com> wrote:

>On 4/14/24 2:10 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> In article <20240414115816.00002f6c@example.com>,
>>   Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 23:20:47 -0700
>>> The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 16:22:48 -0400, Rhino
>>>> <no_offline_contact@example.com> 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.
>
>
>Oh for sure, and let us not forget right wing assholes helped this along 
>by giving everyone easy access to guns.

Yeah that's the problem...

<eyeroll>