How poverty changes your mindset

Re:How poverty changes your mindset by AaronFriel on Sunday February 25, 2018 @10:25PM (#16462848)

It seems you think that either mental institutions are unfixable, or you have a very poor sense of the harms of say, untreated schizophrenia.

This may be a free country, but we shouldn't use that to neglect our duty to our neighbors.

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Re:How poverty changes your mindset by wildmusings on Sunday February 25, 2018 @11:50PM (#16463214)

That’s not what I’m saying. We most definitely should offer mental care to people who need it, regardless of ability to pay. My point is simply that many of them don’t want it, and we can’t force it on them.

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Re:How poverty changes your mindset by eanzenberg on Monday February 26, 2018 @12:30AM (#16463329)

This is an extremely philosophical dilemma.. thanks for pointing it out to me.

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Re:How poverty changes your mindset by wu-ikkyu on Monday February 26, 2018 @10:19AM (#16465852)

What is a more important duty to our neighbors? To lock up and force drugs on homeless people who have no one to talk to but themselves; or preventing them from becoming homeless in the first place?

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