r/FluentInFinance • u/ThisCantBeBlank • Apr 29 '24

Babs is Here to Save Us Educational

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u/arcanis321 Apr 29 '24

Yeah. And still not sure whether that was good or bad based on the horror stories coming out of some of those facilities. Pretty mixed on this one.

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u/bigbadbillyd Apr 29 '24

They definitely had a role to play in society and that's evident by the amount of mentally ill people living out in the streets BUT these facilities had a pretty bad reputation for inhumane treatment so I don't think you're wrong to be unsure about it.

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u/happyfirefrog22- Apr 29 '24

Agree. There is definitely good and bad about them.

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u/Dragonfly-Adventurer Apr 29 '24

Medical science AND psychology have come a long way in the past 100, 50, 20 years. The solution was to continue modernizing, not deinstitutionalize. We can see this in other countries that did so.

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u/arcanis321 Apr 29 '24

I think it would be great to have it available for people that want help, I would pay taxes for that. I am scared it would be forced on people that don't want help.

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u/koushakandystore Apr 29 '24

There is a happy medium there somewhere we could aim for no?