There's no reason to expect asylums to be any better, the only difference is that people are forced to be there. If we see that someone in freezing weather pre

There's no reason to expect asylums to be any better, the only difference is that people are forced to be there. If we see that someone in freezing weather prefers sleeping outside to sleeping in a homeless shelter, we're forced to reckon with the fact that homeless shelters must be terrible. If we lock this person up in an equally terrible asylum, we can ignore that.