• Portosian@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I’d be worried that this will be used as a screen to kill “undesirables” without scrutiny.

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      1 year ago

      Most of the homeless I see are tweaking.
      It seems like they’re solving the housing crisis in the most dystopian way possible

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        1 year ago

        Plenty of ways it could be even more dystopian. Turn them into Soylent Poutine or something, then it’s on another level.

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          1 year ago

          Turning them into food when there’s nothing left to eat seems a little better than killing them off to avoid losing a bit of money

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        Not hard for medical professionals to put blanket symptoms on mental illnesses. Just look at history. The mentally unwell haven’t been treated kindly by pretty much anyone throughout history. All this positive talk about it is modern as in the last 30 years. Before that it was all taboo

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        1 year ago

        No you need bad counselors. And not explicitly evil ones even. Just ones who think they’d want to die if their life was pretty bad. I see people say they’d kill themselves if they were deaf, if they were blind, if they were in need of a wheelchair, etc, but disabled people do live happy and complete lives, often to the astonishment of therapists.

        Drug addicts are capable of recovering and having better lives. That’s the fundamental difference between them and the terminally ill. Mentally ill people can find their miracle treatment or a regimen that works or something.

        These two groups are easily manipulated when at their worsts and counselors are frankly terrible at seeing the difference between a really bad period of life and a life that can’t improve. The last thing a mentally ill person at rock bottom needs is a medical professional to agree death is an option

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      1 year ago

      It’s already happening, and the eugenics apologists have been falling all over themselves to say “OH UHHH THOSE WERE JUST DOZENS OF ISOLATED INCIDENTS PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE FASCISTS BEHIND THE CURTAIN”