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The alternative is these people continue to live and die on the street without care where they are frequently targeted for exploitation or abuse, not freedom
by asdff 4y ago
The alternative is these people continue to live and die on the street without care where they are frequently targeted for exploitation or abuse, not freedom
- FollowingTheDao 4y agoI would agree with you if I did not experience the "care" they calling to provide in these psychiatric for-profit hospitals. Let me tell you about abuse... Why not just give these people free housing with assisted care on location? If we can survive on the street we can surly survive in a residential setting. What will happen is they they will pump us full of drugs to sedate us and just keep sucking money out of the state and federal government so that these hospital owners can buy another house in Bermuda.
- baremetal 4y agoyou mention abuse, then don't give any examples. surely giving anti-psychotic drugs isn't tantamount to abuse in severe cases.
- asdff 4y agoOn the street gang members might force you to pimp yourself or sell drugs, and use your addiction to meth or fentanyl or threats to your life as their hold over you. They might light your tent on fire with you in it. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/tent-fires-are-on-the-rise-in-homeless-encampments-of-l-a-s-skid-row.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/tent-fires-are-o... For these people who have severe mental illness, free housing with assisted care on location looks a lot like a mental institution. Without oversight they are liable to walk out of care and be back on the street. For some homeless, that's how they are on the street today. They might have gotten a delusion that leads them from disappearing from their families, and sometimes they find them years later living on the streets in a state of complete dissociation with reality, other times they never find them.
- tcj_phx 4y ago> What will happen is they they will pump us full of drugs to sedate us The agony induced by haloperidol was used by the Soviets to help their dissidents realize the gulags were much better places than the psycho prisons.
- jibbers 4y agoSurely there are other alternatives.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoPropose them.
- version_five 4y agoI hope you can appreciate how little value this kind of comment adds. I used to work with someone who would make this exact comment "surely there must be X" in discussions, and it is far less helpful than saying nothing. Either you have an option, or a criticism or some other insight, or you have nothing to add. "surely" means nothing.
- tiahura 4y agoYour house.