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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Because if you don’t keep a close eye on mental patients, some of them might hurt or kill themselves or other people - sometimes in extraordinarily resourceful and unexpected ways. It’s rare and overhyped, but the fact that it does happen means the system needs to account for it. Then add the usual amount of greed, incompetence, stigma etc., and suddenly the only way of accounting for that is, well, prison style.


  • Sort of. What passes for “debate” often isn’t as controlled as it ought to be and people don’t necessarily know how it should be done - “what do you mean, ‘yeah well, your mother’ isn’t a valid argument?!”.

    When it’s clearly bad faith, there’s no way to get any value out of that situation, so I’d be edging slowly towards the door.