• pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Counterpoint: Mentally ill people have the same rights as everyone else and therefore can’t be locked up without a criminal conviction, no matter how annoying their symptoms may be.

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      1 year ago

      Then we need a national version of the Baker act to commit them for their own welfare. Just because they haven’t harmed anyone else (yet) doesn’t mean allowing them to roam loose isn’t actively harming them themselves.