I think too many basically sane people are close enough to losing their minds at all times that they would fear for their own civil rights. The mentally ill on

I think too many basically sane people are close enough to losing their minds at all times that they would fear for their own civil rights. The mentally ill on the streets are only a small sample of a spectrum. I understand the history well enough to note that a wide swath of (also) expensive alternatives have not been tried yet, or the basically sane people mentioned above would be willing to undergo treatment that works.