>It doesn't matter how expedient any of this was for society or for the patients, it was wrong
It was wrong to provide a place, staffed by clinical professionals, providing professional healthcare, and regulated by government agencies? Uh huh.
Well, I'm glad you feel all that was 'wrong', because apparently what replaced it, mentally ill people living in squalor, exposed to the elements and diseases, in makeshift shanty-towns ... that's been a real improvement. A homeless individual suffering from schizophrenia and unable to make rational decisions, I'm sure he appreciates you fighting for his right to live in squalor.
Unbelievable.
> It was just kept out of your sight.
That's what we have now. Homeless, and homeless encampments are so normal in progressives cities, it's like background noise. You'll literally step-over a sleeping homeless on your way to work without a second thought (and I can guarantee you do that every day, if you live in one of those cities). Sorry ... I forgot, we're protecting their rights to not receive institutional care.
It was wrong to provide a place, staffed by clinical professionals, providing professional healthcare, and regulated by government agencies? Uh huh.
Well, I'm glad you feel all that was 'wrong', because apparently what replaced it, mentally ill people living in squalor, exposed to the elements and diseases, in makeshift shanty-towns ... that's been a real improvement. A homeless individual suffering from schizophrenia and unable to make rational decisions, I'm sure he appreciates you fighting for his right to live in squalor.
Unbelievable.
> It was just kept out of your sight.
That's what we have now. Homeless, and homeless encampments are so normal in progressives cities, it's like background noise. You'll literally step-over a sleeping homeless on your way to work without a second thought (and I can guarantee you do that every day, if you live in one of those cities). Sorry ... I forgot, we're protecting their rights to not receive institutional care.