The suggestion that some of Norwich’s homeless have made their own choice to live on the streets is often met with disbelief and derision. “Absolute rubbish” and a “bigoted horrible suggestion.” But the homeless I spoke to insisted the decision to sleep rough was largely made of their own volition.

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[–]Chipit[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

Are you really saying that people are homeless because they are anti-psychiatry?

No, the ACLU was anti-putting people in mental institutions because they had committed no crime.

The state hospitals incarcerated non-criminals against their wills in inhumane conditions. This was a violation of due process and their civil liberties. There is STILL public funding for mental institutions. However, people now must either be there because they are a danger to themselves or others, they have voluntarily checked in, or they are criminally insane. Especially now that we have drugs to successfully treat most forms of mental illness so that people can function in society, the involuntary incarceration of the insane has no legal or moral basis. Especially since they were widely used to shut up undesirable mentally handicapped people, too, and a number of reports revealed that many of the so-called insane may not have been any such thing. It was a good way to get rid of a troublesome wife, though, if you have a doctor willing to sign the right papers...

Psychiatry is evil.

Whoa...are you a Scientologist‽ That's a big tell right there.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

The last time I told you that psychiatry was evil, you did the same thing and called me a Scientologist. What a transparent shill you are.

[–]Chipit[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Coming out of nowhere with a strong anti-psychiatry stance is a tell for Scientologists. They're taught to be against it; it's part of L. Ron Hubbard's teachings.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Dude, plenty of doctors and lawyers are against psychiatry. What an association you make by calling me a Scientologist. A fucking leap.

"Coming out of nowhere." Yeah, once again, Chipit, you are a butter-bean and an absolute ass.

[–]Chipit[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Name-calling is the lowest level of the Pyramid of Debate and explicitly against site rules. You aren't a good match for Saidit, your arguing method is too poor.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I'm leaving anyways, you can narc if you'd like, guy. I have no interest in debating to score points. You are an ass, plain and simple.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I have no interest in debating to score points.

Yes, we know, SJWs don't debate or argue. Those are the tools of racists.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have no interest in debating to score points.

"Yes, we know." Ah, you shills and your little clubs.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I wasn't going to say anything about psychiatry and psychology but they're as corrupt an industry as any other, if not more so. Not only does Big Pharma peddle poisons (I lost a decade to their shit - and my Dad's a fucking doctor), but they're also harming people and their psychology, including nonsense from broken feminism about how to be a man: /s/Psychology/comments/77ba/apa_div_51_asks_regarding_men_a_question_paul/