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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Yeah, I don’t really care to “understand schizophrenia”. Only so much time in a day, and only so many years on earth. These people are a lost cause and should be locked away. Fed, clothed, kept reasonably comfortable, but that’s it. It’s unfortunate, but I care more about the rest of society—orderly, law abiding, functioning people—than affording these people so much latitude that they impose their misery on everyone else.
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There are a great many people who feel this way in America. There are a great many who feel compassion but make little to no effort to change social policies, including investment of tax funds, toward really helping the least of us.

I would bet that the person who made the quoted comments considers themselves a good Christian. Certainly many who do have the same attitude towards the least of us. Real Christianity seems quite dead in America which is probably why we have become a culture where every single day there is a new mass shooting in the news and something like 150,000 deaths of despair (suicides, ODs, etc.) every year. Our country is a bleak place these days. [/quote]
I appreciate what you are saying, but what do you do with someone who is offered help, but refuses it? There are many charities and programs to help people who need help. I, and many on this board contribute and volunteer for such. What about when the person is also mentally unstable and prone to violence? What many on this board are saying is that such people deserve our sympathy but not our tolerance. We need to think about the victims they create and the trauma they inflict on others.

That crazy man was about to inflict trauma on the passengers of that car. That marine did what he did to prevent that. We should not punish him for it.[/quote]

DP.
My two cents.... these people should have 2 choices.  1. Get help - if you are drug addicted, you get clean by going to a facility.  If you are mentally ill, you go to a hospital and get help - medications, therapy, etc. - whatever it takes.  If you cannot manage your mental illness, you remain hospitalized.   2. Go to jail.  If you refuse to get help for your addiction/illness - you go to jail.  It is not fair to the rest of the public to have to deal with your actions.

That's it.  Two choices.  Enough of the progressive experiments to deal with homelessness, drug addiction, and mental illness.  One quick look at some of these cities proves those experiments are not working.

This incident is a failure of NYC.  There have been numerous attacks causing severe injury or death on the subway in the past couple years.  And, they have not been dealt with appropriately.  Enough already.  [/quote]

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