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Originally Posted by Bagor
Where are you arriving at the assumption that it's the older guys that are throwing out the too bad to sad, tough love line?
I'm curious because I was demographically guessing the opposite.
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Because ageism has always been perfectly acceptable on this forum.
And in the vast majority of cases, it is when there is absolutely zero evidence to apply it to whatever the case may be.
Blame "old white" people for everything is a common occurrence.
Myself, I don't really care as i am quite aware how false it is in most cases, but others have stopped even being a part of this community because of it.
As to the issue of degrood didnt know what he was doing and what if it was your family member?
The problem with that is this....when someone has shown they are capable of psychotic breaks that manufacture themselves to the level of destroying multiple lives of many others who have done nothing to deserve their fate....im sorry but that person still has to be dealt with in a way that they cannot ever possibly do it again. Particularly when it's them not taking the prescribed meds that allows them to break away from reality. Asking a mass murderer to police themselves is decidedly not what a justice system should be allowing.
I understand this is a multi-layered and extremely difficult issue to address. Maybe in the future there will be a way to monitor those who have these paranoid breaks from reality because of mental illness that will allow them to co-exist with the public with no risk to either side. Until that kind of thing exists though, it's most definatley in the public interest that those who demonstrate violent episodes/tendancies not be permitted to pose that threat against an unsuspecting population.