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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People can't be committed against their will and this right extends to the mentally ill.

The issue isn't so much the lack of mental care or support but the willingness to force the mentally ill to stay with the support functions. We can't lock them up. Many if not most also have drug habits that keeps them on the streets. There was a big movement against state mental institutions for a range of reasons, mostly led by liberals, but we can't go back to those days for the aforementioned reasons.

Most of the homeless are mentally ill but what to do? [/quote]

Yet they cant take care of themselves. They lie wrapped in multiple hot blankets in the summer on the sidewalks, they rant and rave, they stab passersby to death, they get their heads bashed in. How is out city helping? What laws need to be changed to help people who cant help themselves? [/quote]

If you read the thread you'd realize it's a civil rights issue as well as a mental issue.

We could probably make headway if we decided the mentally ill didn't deserve or qualify for civil rights. It would make things much easier, in a way. But we don't do that in America. [/quote]

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