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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]This country is never knowing how to deal with. It's mentally or physically disabled. Healthcare system for them is a joke. And now it's illegal to have people in institutional type settings.... You can thank Congress and Obama for that.
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Actually, you can thank Ronald Reagan and the ACLU.  The individual liberties folks teamed up with the "cut government spending" Republicans in the 70s and 80s and shut down all the mental institutions.  And no doubt, the mental institutions at that time were snake pits.  But there must be some intermediate way of humanely confining and treating the severely mentally ill.

I don't think that the people in that subway car should be blamed for their reaction.  But we should collectively blame ourselves as a society for not being willing to fund (on the right) or consent to (on the left) mental health and criminal justice policies that would've prevented this from happening.[/quote]

I was JUST saying this to my friend this morning. Left and right are both horrible on this stuff. [/quote]

Absolutely. There are no heroes here, including the self-righteous mob judging on man's actions that resulted in a tragic loss of life while downplaying the years of trauma and hardship that the victim endured. I would also include the self-righteous New Yorkers whose answer to safety concerns about metally unstable people is to simply change cars or move away. I'm not sure that treating fellow human beings as though they don't exist and looking away from their hardship in a daily basis is the moral highground. [/quote]

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