We can't even bother inspecting our current critical inpatient mental crisis facilities. You cannot seriously claim we should be bringing back an evidently widely abused institution because we can regulate it, when we already have widely abused institutions that are not regulated.
We had, in our most respected medical facilities, numerous women subjected to extremely painful ovarian harvesting with no pain relief and it turns out a nurse was stealing pain medication from the patients for YEARS. You cannot seriously suggest bringing back yet another widely abused institution when our current institutions already abuse people to a horrific, systemic extent, as if it will solve anything.
Absolutely this. The burden of proof here is on people proposing some kind of happy regulated system to prove that we are in any way as a society capable of building those systems. And it's not just that mental health and inpatient care in the US is under-regulated, under-funded, and abusable -- our society still has debates about mental health and still suffers from widespread stigmatization of people with mental health issues. We have not shaken off the social attitudes and beliefs that led to the original widespread abuse within asylums.
If someone is proposing forced asylums you have got to grapple with the fact that Florida legislature considers being transgender a mental disorder and that Florida is fully willing to try and weaponize social services and child protective services to attack families with transgender members. You can't just gloss over that, you have to understand how a state like Florida will immediately try to weaponize an expanded system of forced asylums.
"We'll just have strong standards that prevent abuse" -- how? A nontrivial number of states right now are actively trying to use medical standards to oppress or eliminate a minority group. I'm sure Texas is going to have great standards on when the State can lock someone in an asylum. /s
We had, in our most respected medical facilities, numerous women subjected to extremely painful ovarian harvesting with no pain relief and it turns out a nurse was stealing pain medication from the patients for YEARS. You cannot seriously suggest bringing back yet another widely abused institution when our current institutions already abuse people to a horrific, systemic extent, as if it will solve anything.