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Are you not also nervous about allowing them to continue assaulting and murdering random people?

• duxup 4y ago
  Yes, but who then gets forcibly medicated? People who present a risk? That could be a lot of people... who picks what meds they are forced to take? How can you possibly ever get out of such a system?
• LatteLazy 4y ago
  If you want to get into prevention, that's fine. But since most crime is committed by people without mental illnesses, you need to start by forcibly medicating the general population. Sound good?
  • vkou 4y ago
    I can't imagine that the people pushing this argument would be down with an involuntary mandate for a cheap, simple, safe, annual injection that would prevent tens and hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by a potentially deadly contagious respiratory disease, but I'm ready to be pleasantly surprised.
• ttpphd 4y ago
  No, because I use my reasoning which includes taking in information about systems and balancing priorities. I am very opposed to broad reaching criminalization of mental illness. It will not stop violent crime, it will just stigmatize mental health and wellness. We should not set policy based on a knee-jerk, tunnel-vision, trauma/fear reaction. And anyway... Context is important: https://counciloncj.org/mid-year-2022-crime-pr/ https://counciloncj.org/mid-year-2022-crime-pr/