At 03:18 PM 8/25/00 -0400, Tim May wrote:
>how "Reagan emptied out the mental hospitals" in California. I ask
>them if they are advocating forcible treatment of folks who may be
>slightly crazy but who have not been given due process in a court of
>law and given defined sentences. This shuts them up, with me at
>least. But they keep babbling about how "Reagan put all the mentally
>ill on the streets.")
Actually technology ---the antipsychosis/antischizo drugs--- did that. If
people remember to take them, they often help, and they can leave
institutions. This was (and is) considered a good thing. (Ignoring
coercion issues for now.) But when they forget, they end up being street
crazies or writing to cypherpunks.
