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I agree completely and marvel at those who insist the rights of mentally ill homeless people to hang out at the library among families and children supersedes the rights of those families and children to peacefully read or work at the library without feeling threatened or harassed.[/quote]

Mentally ill people with homes are okay though?  I have suffered from clinical depression, and found valuable resources at the library. Thankfully I was not homeless. Should I have been excluded?   [/quote]

:roll: Way to deliberately miss the point.[/quote]

Not at all. Its a way to tease out the real point. Is it mental illness that is the problem? Is it residential status?  Is it certain behaviors? Is it that you have managed in your mind to dehumanize certain others?

I am trying very hard not to wish that you some day suffer from paranoid schizophrenia, and learn the other side.  [/quote]

A paranoid schizophrenic should be institutionalized and not wandering around families and unsupervised children at the local library. I have personally known two schizophrenics in my lifetime - one blew his head off with a shotgun and the other broke a bottle over a stranger's head for no reason.  The second person person was a woman I had worried about and reported to social services. I was repeatedly told by others that she was ill but harmless. There is no way to tell who among the mentally ill might harm themselves or others. I think it would be far more compassionate to institutionalize these people and provide treatment, meals and proper bathroom facilities. [/quote]

More ignorance.  The vast majority of people with mental illness, including paranoid schizophrenics, live relatively normal lives managing their illness at home. [/quote]

Only 25% of schizophrenics fully recover. The others live relatively normal lives when they have an entire support team in place - supportive family members, social services, doctors, etc. These are not the people at the library. [/quote]

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