Replies to post #535 on Otcbargains Playground

[ksuave]

The question would become "Who decides who is nuts?" It's a complex issue. You wouldn't want Barack Obama making that decision; I wouldn't want John Ashcroft. Would you have them rounded up, and then put where? In FEMA camps? If they can be jailed (have their rights to life and liberty taken away) for aberrant but un-crimial behavior, would it be more unconstitutional if their right to bear assault weapons were taken away instead? What do you think?

[ksuave]

Well, bbotc, do you agree or disagree that the idea of rounding up all the crazy folks out there (being kept from "running loose", as you said) doesn't cause some dilemmas?

Who's to say they're crazy? Joe Stalin declared that anyone who disagreed with him was crazy and he sent them off to Siberian mental hospitals. I have a feeling that's not what you had in mind. (If you did, it's adios RougeDolphin.)

What about all the schizophrenics who aren't violent and who don't pose a threat to anyone? Should they be rounded up too, just in case?

What kind of guidelines would you establish (since you brought up the idea) about who should be allowed to run loose and who shouldn't? What is the criteria?

And then, what should be done with them? If they're imprisoned without have been charged with having broken any laws, their constitutional rights will have been violated which I know you wouldn't approve of. If they're given mental health care, that would be socialism.

I agree with you that crazy people pose a real problem for our society, but I do not have a solution for how society should deal with them. You seem to feel that you do. Please elaborate.

[ksuave]

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[kozuh]

I think ksuave makes some good points

about the practical problems of dealing with the

mentally ill. I know that SCHIZOIDS (usually men)

don't typically manifest their illness until they reach

their early 20's. Just as men's bodies often keep

growing into their early 20's, this is also true of their

brains and brain chemistry. Most women have

completed their bodily growth and brain growth by

age 18 or 19. Most murders and violent crimes are

committed by men in their 20's. Most property

crimes are committed by males who are 15 to 19

years of age.