Path: ...!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: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 04:45:23 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <20240413162248.000059fe@example.com> <20240414115816.00002f6c@example.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: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:45:23 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8e16e7e6848705fc04a08698e9d7d90d"; logging-data="211244"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/rNjqmomGk4Q1STxyf3vJN" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:BI54I5Bc9Upkk2g7NqFL9dnKoXw= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3282 On 4/14/24 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. > So, MAGA, then. Good idea! -- "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