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> Welcome to the results of having closed the state hospitals.

Those deprived people of freedom simply for not being of the proper mindset to hold down a job. It completes the circuit "support corporations or get arrested". I'm not convinced about your TBI statistic either. I would guess schizophrenia would be the majority

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there are ways to support yourself without supporting a corporation

> > Welcome to the results of having closed the state hospitals. > > Those deprived people of freedom

Are you actually arguing that closing most mental health facilities was the only way to fight for individual freedom?

I'm arguing against locking someone up because they aren't willing or fit to be a cog in a wheel (aka function in the confines of a job to pay rent and "stay off the streets"). Not-being-a-wage-slave isn't an illness.

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