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To: TStro

Betcha there is enough on her to prove she should have been in a mental institution and would have been if this was the 1950s or 60s before the mental hospitals were closed in the 1970s.


3 posted on 02/11/2024 4:13:38 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Yes. Again. All that ADA stuff you know. Everybody equal and all that stuff.


9 posted on 02/11/2024 4:28:58 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“Betcha there is enough on her to prove she should have been in a mental institution and would have been if this was the 1950s or 60s before the mental hospitals were closed in the 1970s.”

Won’t take that bet. And yes, we should’ve never closed the hospitals society had created to care for such people and prevent them from harming the rest of us. From what I can discern, the idea behind the closures was that virtually all of the then patients would actually be better off out in society, monitored and medicated, living in half-way houses. Plus, holding them against their will was illegal. Plus Plus, turning them loose was far less expensive than hospitalization. So the mental hospitals got pretty much emptied out. Unfortunately, the right people weren’t thinking through the possibility that the theory was wrong. Had they considered that possibility, perhaps they would have realized the IMpossibility of ever going back; to at some point having to go out and physically round up unstable people and institutionalize them involuntarily. Had they realized that THAT would never happen, perhaps we’d not be in the situation we’re in today.


36 posted on 02/11/2024 8:47:17 PM PST by drwoof
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