I'd add that you could do a lot of good for big city life just by sending off to peaceful asylums in the countryside not all 140,000 homeless mentally ill, but just the 10% most dangerous.
When Jordan Neely died, I guesstimated that he was one of the 500 craziest people roaming the streets and subways of NYC. It then turned out he …
I'd add that you could do a lot of good for big city life just by sending off to peaceful asylums in the countryside not all 140,000 homeless mentally ill, but just the 10% most dangerous.
When Jordan Neely died, I guesstimated that he was one of the 500 craziest people roaming the streets and subways of NYC. It then turned out he was on an authoritative list of the 50 scariest crazymen in New York!
If we just sent to asylums the worst 10% of the mentally ill homeless, we'd still have a depressing number of people sleeping on the street, but we wouldn't have have as many psychos punching Rick Moranis at random and the like.
That seems highly doable: building asylums for 14,000 is hardly beyond America's capacity. When we see that that works, we can expand from there.
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I'd add that you could do a lot of good for big city life just by sending off to peaceful asylums in the countryside not all 140,000 homeless mentally ill, but just the 10% most dangerous.
When Jordan Neely died, I guesstimated that he was one of the 500 craziest people roaming the streets and subways of NYC. It then turned out he was on an authoritative list of the 50 scariest crazymen in New York!
If we just sent to asylums the worst 10% of the mentally ill homeless, we'd still have a depressing number of people sleeping on the street, but we wouldn't have have as many psychos punching Rick Moranis at random and the like.
That seems highly doable: building asylums for 14,000 is hardly beyond America's capacity. When we see that that works, we can expand from there.