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Originally Posted by DionTheDman
Unless you know (a) something his doctors don't about his condition/situation, (b) have some sort of specialized training that his doctors don't (c) can see the future or (d) just plainly don't believe in the system, I don't see how anybody could rationally believe otherwise.
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Based on my life experiences of interacting with the mental health system, I do have good reason to be skeptical about what the experts claim to know about mental illness.
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2. There is no such thing as a guarantee. I can't guarantee I won't kill you one day. You can't guarantee that you won't ever kill your neighbour. There is no such thing.
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This is a very bad argument. Whether it was his fault or not, the fact is that he butchered someone to death and there is a chance that it could happen again. Even if that chance is small, he should be kept away from society on the basis that it has happened before. As far as I am aware, it has not been scientifically shown that an unsupervised schizophrenic on medication is no more likely to kill someone than a general member of the public. Furthermore, I don't think it is fair to downplay the possibility of him not staying on his medicine schedule.